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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.
[3] [4] [5] Alice Dunbar Nelson, Dunbar's wife, later wrote in a 1914 article that: [2]: xxii [3] The iron grating of the book stacks in the Library of Congress suggested to him the bars of the bird’s cage. June and July days are hot.
Her family moved to Wilmington, Delaware shortly after to be closer to her mother's family. There, she was raised by three "parents"—her mother, grandmother, and her aunt. 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]
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]
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935), American poet, journalist and political activist; Nicole Garay (1873–1928), Panamanian poet; Norah M. Holland (1876–1925), poet, playwright, journalist and editor; Annie Campbell Huestis (1878–1960), Canadian poet; Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966), American poet
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.
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 ...
Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Honorary: Poet and author of short stories; wife of Paul Dunbar; first woman to serve on the Delaware State Republican Committee [8] Paula Giddings: Alpha: Author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America and In Search of Sisterhood [9] Jessie Redmon Fauset: Honorary: Novelist during ...