Writing the Racial Mountain in the Age of Jim Crow 

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"The Tuskegee Song,"
Nathaniel Clark Smith, music,
Paul Laurence Dunbar, words,
Tuskegee Institute Press,
Tuskegee, Alabama.
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University

By the turn of the century, Paul Laurence Dunbar was the most celebrated black writer in America. He wrote for the broadest possible audience, yet his reputation rested on his mastery of dialect verse which employed colloquial vocabulary and spellings that were, for the most part, African American. In his use of vernacular speech, Dunbar has been compared to Mark Twain and James Whitcomb Riley.

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