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After graduation, she worked as a teacher, a bookkeeper, and a stenographer for a black printing firm. She was also active in musical, religious, and literary arenas. She performed in amateur plays; learned to play piano and cello; wrote a column for a fraternal newspaper; and presided over a church club.
Mar 12, 2020 · Dunbar-Nelson’s avid involvement in the 1910s with the Women’s Suffrage Movement ignited a passionate activism for black women who were marginalized within a society that offered little to no agency for women or people of color.
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Sep 28, 2020 · In 1902, when her marriage to Paul Dunbar ended, Alice moved to Wilmington, Delaware, and began to work as a teacher at Howard High School, where she had an intimate friendship with the (considerably older) school principal Edwina B. Kruse, one of several important relationships with women over the course of her life.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson and The Western Canon
- Reading and Respectability
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson was both a talented educator and thought-provoking writer, but she was also an accomplished reader. The three reading journals she kept intermittently between the years of 1906 and 1932 document her accomplishments as a reader in extraordinarily granular terms. As a whole, just as Dunbar-Nelson’s diary offers us a comparatively ...
Fundamentally, we must consider the degree to which Dunbar-Nelson’s selections for these years either coincided with or ran against a tacit adherence to racial uplift and respectability politics. Respectability politics, defined in the broadest terms, represented a post-Reconstruction sociopolitical mission that urged African Americans to become es...
Dunbar-Nelson’s second and third reading journals (Record Book Nos. 3 & 4), which cover the years between 1916 and 1931, are reflective of these internal and external discussions on the value of reading diverse literature. Although the majority of the books she read were written by Caucasian men, painting a distinctly Eurocentric picture of her rea...
The reading she performed and practiced as a means for self-education also had clear benefits. Compulsory to her nature as an intellectually curious individual, this form of reading helped her to fashion solid arguments in public debates with deep knowledge on a range of topics as their epistemological scaffolding. And commentaries on art and liter...
The list of surviving books from the library of Alice Dunbar-Nelson tells a story that looks very much like the one told by the Carter G. Woodson library (Burkett, et al.). Both catalogs feature mostly African American subject-related materials. In the case of Dunbar-Nelson’s library, however, strangely absent are the many titles in English literat...
“Award Winning Author and Professor Eleanor Alexander is Interviewed.” TodayinAmerica, from Blog Talk Radio, 29 Aug. 2009, www.blogtalkradio.com/TodayinAmerica/2009/08/29/Award-winning-Author-and-Professor-Eleanor-Alexander-is-interviewed. Adams, Katherine, et al. “Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s Published Works: A Bibliography in Progress.” Legacy: A Journa...
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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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.
