ABSTRACT

Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson lived most of her adult life known as the widow of one of the country’s premier black poets and writers, Paul Laurence Dunbar. In recent decades, Dunbar-Nelson gained notoriety in her own right as an author, playwright, and poet. However, Dunbar-Nelson was more than those characterizations. She was a journalist who wrote for newspapers and other publications during the Jim Crow era in this country.