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Sep 28, 2020 · Our column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. Alice Dunbar-Nelson. In April 1895, the up-and-coming poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, whom Frederick Douglass had dubbed “the most promising young colored man in America,” saw a poem by a young writer, Alice Ruth Moore, accompanied by a photograph in ...
Aug 17, 2020 · The writer and suffrage organizer Alice Dunbar-Nelson, pictured circa 1915, documented her relationships with both men and women in her diaries and described a queer subculture within...
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.
Jun 21, 2020 · Sunday, June 21, 2020. Alice Dunbar-Nelson. This photo of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) taken by an unknown photographer sometime before 1919, was displayed in the National Gallery of Art in an exhibition commemorating the passage of the 19th Amendment.
- Allen Browne
Mar 12, 2020 · However, it is more often than not that the extraordinary achievements of Dunbar overshadow the similarly extraordinary efforts of his wife, Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Photograph of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Date unknown.
- Grace Miller
Dec 13, 2020 · The Rosenbach Library and Museum in Philadelphia is elevating a little-known Black Victorian-era writer and activist, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, with an exhibition of her life and work. “I Am an American!” was planned for the museum’s exhibition space in its Rittenhouse Square building.
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Nov 30, 2020 · New Orleanian Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson was included. Her photograph in the exhibit, which she had used in advertisements for her suffrage speeches, showed an attractive woman of mixed race. She might have looked peaceable, but she never was.
