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2 unusual facts about Alice Dunbar Nelson


Alice Dunbar Nelson

At a time when fewer than 1% of Americans went to college, Moore graduated from Straight University (later merged into Dillard University) in 1892 and started work as a teacher in the public school system of New Orleans.

Alice Dunbar then moved to Wilmington, Delaware and taught at Howard High School for more than a decade.


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The first issue of Harlem contained essays by Lewis, Locke, Nugent, and Walter Francis White; poems by Helene Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Effie Newsom; stories by Roy de Coverly and George Little; and illustrations.


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