DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Dayton has been home to multiple Black Americans that have shaped history within the city and beyond.
In honor of Black History Month, learn about five of these historic figures below.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the nation’s first famous Black writers.
Dunbar was born in Dayton in 1872 to former slave parents and attended Central High School where he would work on a Black newspaper called the Dayton Tattler alongside Orville Wright, one half of the famous Wright Brothers…