Alice Dunbar Nelson
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. After his death, she 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, women's rights activist, and editor of two anthologies.
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