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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 Renaissance.
Mine Eyes Have Seen is a play by Alice Dunbar Nelson.It was published in the April 1918 edition of the monthly news magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) entitled The Crisis. [1]
Young's aunt, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, a writer, activist and poet, greatly influenced Young to follow in her footsteps, and Young considered her to be an inspiration. [ 2 ] Young occasionally reminisced about her childhood home, describing it as a "wayside inn and an underground railroad for visiting Negroes and white literary friends, who wouldn ...
Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875–1935) – poet, journalist and political activist [130] Anais Nin (1903–1977) – author [131] Brenda Marie Osbey (born 1957) – poet [132] John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969) – author; won a Pulitzer Prize for his Picaresque novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) Jean Toomer (1894–1967) – poet and novelist ...
Alice Dunbar Nelson: 1892 Women's rights activist, poet, author and lecturer; wife of Paul Laurence Dunbar: Alfred Lloyd Norris: 1960 Bishop, United Methodist Church: Revius Ortique Jr. 1947 First African American to serve on the Louisiana State Supreme Court (now retired); member of the Dillard University Board of Trustees Brenda Marie Osbey: 1978
The White Rose Mission (also known as the White Rose Home for Colored Working Girls and the White Rose Industrial Association) was created on February 11, 1897, as a "Christian, nonsectarian Home for Colored Girls and Women" by African American civic leaders Victoria Earle Matthews (1861–1907) and Maritcha Remond Lyons (1848–1929).
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical Dictionary updated the set for subjects who died between 1951 and 1976. The work for the fourth volume was a joint project of Radcliffe College and Harvard University Press funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and edited by Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green.