“Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.”
About Alice Dunbar Nelson
19 July 1875–18 September 1935
Alice Dunbar Nelson was born Alice Ruth Moore on July 19, 1875, in the bustling, sun-drenched city of New Orleans, Louisiana, a place where the Mississippi River whispered stories of resilience and reinvention into the ears of its diverse inhabitants. She died on September 18, 1935, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at…