30 Days of Pride Day 16- Alice Dunbar NelsonAlice Dunbar Nelson was an American poet, journalis

30 Days of Pride Day 16- Alice Dunbar Nelson

Alice Dunbar Nelson was an American poet, journalist, teacher, 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. In addition to playing a role in the Women’s Suffrage Movement of 1910, she also became a voice for Black people on the subjects of lynchings, healthcare, education, and the Jim Crow Laws. 

Nelson’s writings touched upon her experiences in a white, male dominated industry as a writer, and of growing up as a biracial woman in Louisiana. In addition to her published work, Alice also kept diaries, which detailed her love affairs with women during her marriages to men. Her diary was published in 1984 and remains one of the few diaries of a 19th-century African-American woman.