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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 ...
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child.
Jean-Louis Dolliole, architect-builder who was a free person of color in the Antebellum era; James Freret, architect, designed many 19th century homes in New Orleans; William Alfred Freret, architect, supervising architect for federal building in the 19th century
Comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live, The Jamie Foxx Show, Martin) Khalid Abdul Muhammad: 1970 National spokesman, Nation of Islam: Alice Dunbar Nelson: 1892 Women's rights activist, poet, author and lecturer; wife of Paul Laurence Dunbar: Alfred Lloyd Norris: 1960 Bishop, United Methodist Church: Revius Ortique Jr. 1947
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
Pauline Alice Young (August 17, 1900 – June 26, 1991) [1] was an African-American teacher, librarian, historian, lecturer, community activist, humanitarian, and individualist. Early life and education