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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.
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935), teacher, author, and civil rights leader, once lived in Wilmington at 1310 North French Street. Married to famed writer Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was proponent of women’s suffrage as well as an advocate of civil rights for African Americans.
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Alice Dunbar Nelson was biracial, and her Creole heritage meant she had light skin and auburn hair. She was often able to pass, but was clear about her desire not to blend into white society. She faced derision for her appearance and race from both white and Black people in her life. Alice often used her writing to explore the experience of living ...
Determining a historic figure’s sexuality should not be taken lightly, or a historian risks removing the person’s agency in their own story. Everyone should have the agency to choose the labels they do or do not use. However in many cases, historic figures that would today fall into the LGBTQ+ community lived in societies that actively removed thei...
Alice Dunbar Nelson’s many experiences outside the binary are perhaps reflected in her willingness to vary the medium in which she worked as a writer. Alice wrote poetry, prose, essays, criticisms, and even a play. As an activist, Alice expressed her message through stories like “The Stones of the Village,” or essays like “Negro Women in War Work.”...
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.
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) was an acclaimed American journalist, political activist, and poet. Born into the first generation of free black southerners post-Civil War, her diverse work spans autobiographies, short stories, poetry, journalism, and novelettes.
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Nov 6, 2020 · IHRC 2020 PUBLIC HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM “If I Had Known”: Education, Performance, Activism. A symposium in honor of the life and legacy of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. November 6, 2020 11:00AM – 3:00PM. PAPER PRESENTATIONS, Monet Timmons, moderator 11:15AM-12:15PM. Eve Dunbar, Associate Professor of English at Vassar College
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