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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).
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.
In 1895, Alice Moore-Dunbar began to pursue a career in poetry, as well as short story writing. Her first work, Violets and Other Tales, was a mixture of poetry and vignettes that reflected the realities of Creole life and experiences of black women in the late 1890s.
Taught by Literature is a collaborative digital humanities project that recenters Black women writers, beginning with the work of African American author and activist Alice Dunbar-Nelson. In 1922, Alice Dunbar-Nelson published an essay in Southern Workman urging teachers to assign work by African American intellectuals in their classrooms.
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 archival resources for Alice Dunbar- Nelson, born Alice Ruth Moore in 1875, provide a striking exception to the general rule that the personal papers of black women born in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are scarce,
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson (b. 1875–d. 1935) was born in New Orleans and raised there by her mother, Patricia Moore, a freedwoman of African American and Native American descent. She attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, earned a teaching degree at Straight (now Dillard) University, and taught in New Orleans’s black schools from 1892 to 1896.
