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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 ...
An In-Depth Portrait of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 1975 'Works by and About Alice Ruth (Moore) Dunbar-Nelson: A Bibliography', College Language Association Journal 19 (1976) (ed.) American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey, 1978 (ed.) An Alice Dunbar-Nelson Reader. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1979.
Ann Bradford Davis (May 3, 1926 – June 1, 2014) was an American actress. [1] [2] She achieved prominence for her role in the NBC situation comedy The Bob Cummings Show (1955–1959), for which she twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, but she was best known for playing the part of Alice Nelson, the housekeeper in ABC's The Brady Bunch (1969 ...
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).
Alice Dunbar Nelson(m. 1910, div.) Myra Colson Callis (m. 1927) Henry Arthur Callis (January 14, 1887 – November 12, 1974) [ 1 ] was a physician and one of the seven founders ( commonly referred to as The Seven Jewels ) of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Cornell University in 1906.
Angelina Weld Grimké was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1880 to a biracial family.Her father, Archibald Grimké, was a lawyer and of mixed race, son of a white slave owner and a mixed-race enslaved woman of color his father owned; he was of the "negro race" according to the society he grew up in.