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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.
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 (attended 1907–1908) – poet, journalist, political activist, Harlem Renaissance influence; Jane Duran – Cuban-born poet, recipient of the Forward Poetry Prize (1995) and the Cholmondeley Award (2005) Barry Eisler (J.D. 1989) – author, novelist; Sarah Elbert (B.A 1965, M.A 1966, Ph.D. 1974) – scholar
Laura Wheeler Waring (May 26, 1887 – February 3, 1948) was an American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still-life, [1] and well-known African American portraitures she made during the Harlem Renaissance. [1]
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
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.
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 ...