Alice Dunbar Nelson
Writer, Author
1875 – 1935
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Who was Alice Dunbar Nelson?
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson was an American poet, journalist and political activist. Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. Her first husband was the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar; she then married physician Henry A. Callis; and last married Robert J. Nelson, a poet and civil rights activist.
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- Born
- Jul 19, 1875
New Orleans - Also known as
- Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson
- Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson
- Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Alice Dunbar
- Spouses
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1898/03/06 - 1906) - Henry Arthur Callis
(1910 - )
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Straight University
- Dillard University
- Cornell University
- Died
- Sep 18, 1935
Philadelphia
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on July 23, 2013
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