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Hidden Figures: Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson

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Channel: Sensei Aishitemasu · 2018 · Entertainment

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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) 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.

In 1895, her first collection of short stories and poems, Violets and Other Tales, was published by The Monthly Review. About that time, Moore moved to Boston and then New York City. She co-founded and taught at the White Rose Mission (White Rose Home for Girls) in Manhattan's San Juan Hill neighborhood. Her writing and photo in a literary magazine captured the attention of poet and journalist Paul Laurence Dunbar, and after corresponding for two years, she moved to Washington, DC, where they married in 1898. She and Paul Dunbar separated in 1902. He was reported to have been disturbed by her lesbian affairs, as she openly had intimate relationships with women, including the activist Fay Jackson Robinson. 

Alice Dunbar Nelson was an activist for African Americans' and women's rights, especially during the 1920s and 1930s. While she continued to write stories and poetry, she became more politically active in Wilmington, and put more effort into numerous articles and journalism on leading topics. In 1915, she was field organizer for the Middle Atlantic states for the woman's suffrage movement. In 1918, she was field representative for the Woman's Committee of the Council of Defense.

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Links: 

Alice Dunbar-Nelson:
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/alice-dunbar-nelson

Alice Dunbar-Nelson:
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dunbar-nelson/about.htm

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Ruth Moore (1875-1935):
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/dunbar-nelson-alice-ruth-moore-1875-1935

Alice Dunbar Nelson (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Dunbar_Nelson

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