Biographical Sketch of W.E. Dancer in The Florida Negro
Dublin Core
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
Text Item Type Metadata
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.