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Nov 18, 2020 · Alice Dunbar Nelson spent much of her life living outside of society’s boxes. She was biracial, bisexual, and a writer who worked in almost every medium. To understand her life, it is perhaps best to examine the binary expectations of race, sexuality, and career that she broke throughout her life.
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
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.
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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The Authorship and Activism of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Although Alice Dunbar-Nelson had public marriages to Paul Laurence Dunbar, Henry Arthur Callis, and Robert J. Nelson, she also cultivated secret romantic relationships with women.
Jul 3, 2020 · Civil rights activist, journalist, novelist, educator, and short story writer Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) will form the focus of The Rosenbach’s fall, 2020 online exhibition “I Am an American!”: The Authorship and Activism of Alice Dunbar-Nelson .
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She graduated from a teaching program at Straight University, now Dillard University, and became a public school instructor. She published her first book, Violets and Other Tales , a collection of poems, essays and stories, when she was 20.