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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.
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 ...
Nelson might not examine actual lynchings in Mine Eyes Have Seen, but the effects of such acts are present after the characters must travel north: Their mother passes due to the abysmal atmosphere of the north, Dan is crippled while working in a factory, and Lucy lives with a limp and constant fear.
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
Fay Jackson Robinson (1902-1988) African-American woman activist and lover of writer Alice Dunbar Nelson, Ron Roloff (1940-1991) Biker's Rights Activist and Legislative Lobbyist. Cofounder of Modified Motorcycle Association ad National Coalition of Motorcyclists, namesake of Ron Roloff Lifetime Achievement Award
Clippings of Alice Dunbar-Nelson's columns in The Pittsburgh Courier, The Wilmington Advocate, and The Washington Eagle Posters and photographs Publications of Poet Lore , A.M.E. Church Review , Collier's , Dayton Press, Southern Workman , The Tuskegee Student , The Indianapolis World , and a few other printings
Kruse had a longtime personal relationship with writer Alice Dunbar-Nelson, [18] [19] who taught at Howard High School. [20] [21] [22] Dunbar-Nelson left an unpublished novel in manuscript,This Mighty Oak, based on Kruse's life. [20] Kruse mentored a girl from Trinidad, Etta A. Woodlen, who became a music teacher at Howard High School. [23]
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).