As we enter the final week of Pride Month, our "Hidden Histories" series takes a look at the works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, a bisexual Black woman whose writings and activism advocated racial equality ...

Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a prolific writer, educator and activist from the Victorian era through the Harlem Renaissance. She lived her last days in Philadelphia. A photograph of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, ...

Writer and activist Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) “navigated complex questions of racism, women’s rights, and sexual agency and found ways to resist” according to this show-stopping biography from ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A vast network of friendships was established among prominent African American women in the wake of the black women’s ...

This summer marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Alice Dunbar Nelson, wife of iconic Dayton poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. In celebration of Nelson’s 150th birthday, the Paul Laurence Dunbar House ...

The National Portrait Gallery will celebrate the centennial of U.S. women winning the right to vote with the exhibit “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence.” This exhibit makes history not for ...

Legacy is the official journal of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. It is the only journal to focus specifically on American women's writings from the seventeenth through the ...