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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.
- Grace Miller
Alice Dunbar-Nelson Papers, MSS 113.5.139 A recently widowed Dunbar-Nelson studied at Cornell in 1907. Her tuition, as well as the loss in salary that resulted from her leave of absence from teaching at Howard High School, were subsidized by her dear friend and romantic partner Edwina Kruse.
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.
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 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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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 ...
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