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| | About Alice Dunbar-Nelson |
 | | orn in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 19 July 1875, Alice Ruth Moore was the daughter of Patricia Wright, a seamstress, and Joseph Moore, a merchant marine, and, due to her middle-class social status and racially mixed appearance, she enjoyed the diverse culture of the city. |
 | | In 1915, she served as field organizer for the woman's suffrage movement for the Middle Atlantic states; she was later field representative for the Woman's Committee of the Council of Defense in 1918 and, in 1924, she campaigned for the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. |
 | | Dunbar tells me that I average one poem in six months, and that there will be none due for several weeks to come." If anything, Paul's estimate is a bit high when spread over her lifetime of writing. |
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