Talk:We Wear the Mask

A fact from We Wear the Mask appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Paul Laurence Dunbar would "undoubtedly" have been killed if contemporary white society had fully understood his poem "We Wear the Mask"?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 19:58, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Paul Laurence Dunbar would "undoubtedly" have been killed if contemporary white society had fully understood his poem "We Wear the Mask"? Source: [1]

IOU qpq

Created by Eddie891 (talk). Self-nominated at 00:57, 2 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Strong work. New enough and long enough -- technically placed in the wrong section if I'm reading the page history correctly, but still within seven days. Impressive hook work. Waiting on QPQ. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 05:17, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Vaticidalprophet, reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Northern brown howler Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 16:53, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 23:21, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dating

The dating of the poem, as being "towards the end of the Reconstruction Era," is surely incorrect, as the author would have been no more than five when Reconstruction ended in 1877. John M Baker (talk) 15:45, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

John M Baker, I mean, It's what the source says, though I agree it's suspect. I'd imagine the author is referring to it being written in the context of the south after the civil war. I've removed the sentence for now. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 11:44, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]