Alice Dunbar
| Alice Dunbar Nelson | |
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| Born |
Alice Ruth Moore July 19, 1875 New Orleans, Louisiana, US |
| Died | September 18, 1935 (aged 60) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Resting place | Wilmington & Brandywine Cemetery, 701 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Straight University Cornell University |
| Occupation | poet, journalist, political activist |
| Spouse(s) |
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1898-1906) Robert J. Nelson (1916-1935) |
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1898-1906)
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.
Alice Ruth Moore was born in New Orleans on July 19, 1875, the daughter of an African-American seamstress and former slave and a white seaman. Her parents, Patricia Wright and Joseph Moore, were middle-class people of color and part of the traditional multiracial Creole community of the city. At a time when fewer than 1% of Americans went to college, Moore graduated from Straight University (later merged into Dillard University) in 1892 and started work as a teacher in the public school system of New Orleans.
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. Beginning a correspondence with the poet and journalist Paul Laurence Dunbar, she ended up moving to Washington, DC to join him when they married in 1898.
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