Biographical Sketch of W.E. Dancer in The Florida Negro

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Title

Biographical Sketch of W.E. Dancer in The Florida Negro

Subject

African American writers of Jacksonville

Description

Biographical sketch of author W.E. Dancer found on p. 151 of the manuscript copy of The Florida Negro housed in the State Archives of Florida (S1585) and available through the Florida Memory website of the State Library and Archives of Florida.

This text includes details that appear in Sunshine and Shadows by W.E. Dancer (1 of 2) and Sunshine and Shadows by W.E. Dancer (2 of 2), including the fact that Dancer was a graduate of Tuskegee Institute, but also omits much of what they offer and contains information not found in those documents.

Creator

Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Florida

Source

State Archives of Florida, manuscript of The Florida Negro, S1585

Publisher

The Viola Muse Digital Edition, University of North Florida

Date

c.1938

Contributor

Lucia Mylius (transcription, encoding, and edition)
Laura Heffernan (edition)
Tru Leverette (edition)
Clayton McCarl (edition)

Format

Typed, one page

Language

EN

Type

Biographical narrative

Identifier

fn-151

Coverage

19th Century Alabama
20th Century Florida

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Files

fn-151.jpeg

Citation

Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Florida, “Biographical Sketch of W.E. Dancer in The Florida Negro,” The Viola Muse Digital Edition, accessed March 29, 2024, https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/103.

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