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Feb 21, 2020 · Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a middle-class biracial, queer woman who held many identities within herself at the turn of the twentieth century. She was a poet, author, activist, educator, and philanthropist who spent her career trying to improve the quality of Black Americans’ lives.
Mar 12, 2020 · On September 18, 1935, Alice Dunbar-Nelson passed away from heart related problems in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After a life full of passion and progression, her relatives sought to preserve her legacy, and in 1984, her diary was published, detailing the many facets of Dunbar-Nelson’s life.
- Grace Miller
The Rosenbach’s new exhibition, “ I Am an American!”. The Authorship and Activism of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, explores these questions through the lens of an under-studied local author, teacher, and advocate for social justice who changed American society—starting more than one hundred years ago.
Poet, Educator, Activist and DSC Professor/Administrator Alice Dunbar Nelson is an important Delaware State University connection to Delaware African American Women and Voting.
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).
LAST MODIFIED: 26 May 2021. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0170. Introduction. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (b. 1875–d. 1935) was born in New Orleans and raised there by her mother, Patricia Moore, a freedwoman of African American and Native American descent.
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Born Alice Ruth Moore, in New Orleans, of mixed African American, Native American, and European ancestry, Dunbar-Nelson was educated at Straight College (now Dillard University). Her Cornell master’s thesis on the influence of Milton on Wordsworth was cited at the time.
