Alice Dunbar Nelson
(1875-1935)
American journalist, poet and activist
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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 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, lastly, 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, and editor of two anthologies.
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19 July 1875 New Orleans, Louisiana
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18 September 1935 (aged 60) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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