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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 ...
The official Delta Sigma Theta Hymn, written by Florence Cole Talbert and Alice Dunbar Nelson, was adopted in 1924. Its publication is The Delta. [5] Delta Sigma Theta's colors are crimson and cream, representing courage and purity. [6] [41] The sorority's symbol is Lady Fortitude. [41]
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.
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 ...
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 [20] [21] [22] Dunbar-Nelson left an unpublished novel in manuscript,This Mighty Oak, based on Kruse's life.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]
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 [313] [314] [315]
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.