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Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end of the American Civil War , she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem ...
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.
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).
Prominent in the Harlem Renaissance, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a poet and activist born in 1875. She was known for her short stories, plays, poems and newspaper columns. Her first book Violets and Other Tales was published in 1895.
Poet, essayist, diarist, and activist Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to mixed-race parents. Her African American, Anglo, Native American, and Creole heritage contributed to her complex understandings of gender, race, and ethnicity, subjects she often addressed in her work.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson Papers, MSS 113.27.1 Dunbar-Nelson was photogenic and enjoyed some fame for her elegant and refined sense of style. Photographs she had taken were often repurposed in authorial frontispieces, magazines, and her column writing.
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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.