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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.
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]
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.
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
Alice is a form of the Old French name Alis / Alys (older Alais), short form of Adelais, which is derived from the Old High German Adalhaidis (see Adelaide), from the Proto-Germanic words *aþala-, meaning "noble" and *haidu-, meaning "appearance; kind" (compare German Adel "nobility", edel "noble", nominalizing suffix -heit "-hood"), hence "of noble character or rank, of nobility". [1]
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".
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).