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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 ...
1984: (Editor), Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Norton, ISBN 039330311X. 1987: Color, Sex and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Indiana University Press, ISBN 9780253204301. 1988: (Editor), The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 3 vols, Oxford University Press.
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 ]
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]
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 [20] [21] [22] Dunbar-Nelson left an unpublished novel in manuscript,This Mighty Oak, based on Kruse's life.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]
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.
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