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Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist.
In 1895, Alice Moore-Dunbar began to pursue a career in poetry, as well as short story writing. Her first work, Violets and Other Tales, was a mixture of poetry and vignettes that reflected the realities of Creole life and experiences of black women in the late 1890s.
The archival resources for Alice Dunbar- Nelson, born Alice Ruth Moore in 1875, provide a striking exception to the general rule that the personal papers of black women born in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are scarce,
The five critical essays presented here address Dunbar- Nelson’s lifetime of work as a journalist and nationally syndicated columnist (Emery), as a political organizer and plat-form lecturer (Garvey), and as a leader in black education (Christian).
The photographs displayed here show a young Alice at the height of late Victorian fashion and a more mature Dunbar-Nelson toward the end of her life. Also included is a photograph of her niece Pauline Young, whom Dunbar-Nelson had helped to raise and who eventually took charge of caring for Dunbar-Nelson’s personal papers and literary estate ...
Sep 14, 2024 · Alice Dunbar Nelson was a novelist, poet, essayist, and critic associated with the early period of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s. The daughter of a Creole seaman and a black seamstress, Moore grew up in New Orleans, where she completed a two-year teacher-training program at Straight.
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The legal case between Alice Dunbar-Nelson and William Kemp offers a clear record of how women of color fought back against race-based police violence generations before the protests of the 1960s and the modern Black Lives Matter movement.
