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.
Alice Ruth Moore was born in New Orleans on July 19, 1875, the daughter of an AfricanAmerican seamstress and former slave and a white seaman. Her parents, Patricia Wright and Joseph Moore, were middleclass people of color and part of the traditional multiracial Creole community of the city. At a time when fewer thanof Americans went to college, Moore graduated from Straight University in 1892 and started work as a teacher in the public school system of New Orleans.
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