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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.
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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.
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present is a compilation of orature and literature by more than 200 women from Africa and the African diaspora, edited and introduced by Margaret Busby, [2] who compared the process of assembling the volume to "trying to catch a flowing river in a calabash".
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935), American poet, journalist, and political activist Aynsley Dunbar (born 1946), English musician Bobby Dunbar , child who disappeared in 1912
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
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).