TWA Poets: Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson

1875 - 1935

Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson (born in New Orleans 1875) was an educator, poet, activist, and playwright. Her heritage was black, white and American Indian. Moore graduate in 1892 from Straight University (now Dillard) with teaching and nursing degrees.

She wrote for the first newspaper created by and for African American women, The Woman’s Era and in …