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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 ...
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.
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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.
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.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson left Paul Dunbar in 1902, moving to Wilmington, Delaware. He died four years later. Alice Dunbar-Nelson worked in Wilmington at Howard High School, as a teacher and administrator, for 18 years.
Jul 19, 2022 · While sitting in a classroom at Dillard University of New Orleans in the 1990’s, I met Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935). She, as we would say back then, “rocked my world.” Nearly one hundred years removed from the characters in her first collection, Violets and Other Tales, Dunbar-Nelson’s New Orleans was not a place that I knew. But I ...
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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.
