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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson was born on July 19, 1875, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She graduated from Straight University in New Orleans and worked as an elementary teacher. She was an activist for civil rights and women's suffrage, as well as a poet, journalist, short-story writer, and playwright. Her works include Violets and Other Tales (The Monthly Review, 1895) and The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899). She married Paul Laurence Dunbar in 1898, though they later separated. She died on September 18, 1935, in Philadelphia.
Born on May 30, 1903, in New York City, Countee Cullen was one of the most important voices of...
Anne Spencer was born Anne Bethel Scales Bannister on February 6, 1882, on a plantation in Henry...
James Weldon Johnson, born in Florida in 1871, was a national organizer for the NAACP and an...
Arna Wendell Bontemps was born on October 13, 1902, in Alexandria, Louisiana,
Sterling Brown was born in Washington, D.C., in 1901. He was educated
Leslie Pinckney Hill was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on May 14, 1880. He attended public schools...