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Alice Dunbar- Nelson as Author Posing theoretical questions about authors and authorship has long been a vexed proposition in criticism on African American writers.
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.
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.
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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As a traveling lecturer for the Equal Rights League, Day worked with Wilmington abolitionist and Underground Railroad “stationmaster,” Thomas Garrett. In 1867, Day accepted a post as superintendent of schools with the Freedmen’s Bureau, which lead to further collaboration with Garrett, as he, son Elwood and the Quaker community at large were heavil...
Mealy, Todd M 2010 Aliened American: A Biography of William Howard Day, 1825-1865 (Volume I); 1865-1900 (Volume II). America Star Books, Maryland.
African American Registry 2003 William Howard Day, Editor and Minister. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. https://aaregistry.org/story/william-howard-day-editor-and-minister/Accessed 6/18/19. Chronicling America Our National Progress (Harrisburg, PA) 1869-1875 [Record notes]. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83032133/Accessed 6/19...
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 ...
ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON 1875-1935 You! Inez! Orange gleams athwart a crimson soul Lambent flames; purple passion lurks In your dusk eyes. Red mouth; flower soft,
