Before conquering the skies, Orville Wright ran an underground black newspaper in 1890s Jim Crow Ohio

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The Friendship of Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Wright Brothers

The Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park houses the restored Wright & Wright Job Printers shop, where one of America’s most unlikely friendships changed history.

Inside this small print shop, you can see where Orville Wright and Paul Laurence Dunbar worked together in the 1890s, creating the Dayton Tattler newspaper…

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