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American journalist, poet and activist (1875–1935)

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.

Her first husband was the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Alice moore dunbar nelson biography

After his death, she married physician Henry Arthur Callis and later was married to Robert J. Nelson, a poet and civil rights activist. She achieved prominence as a poet, author of short stories and dramas, newspaper columnist, women's rights activist, and editor of two anthologies.

Life

Alice Ruth Moore was born in New Orleans on July 19, 1875, the daughter of a formerly enslaved African American seamstress and a white seaman.^[1] Her parents, Patricia Wright and Joseph Moore, were middle-c