51 speeches by prominent African-American leaders include Booker T. Washington's -Atlanta Compromise- address, Frederick Douglass' -What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?- Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 - September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist and political activist. Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. Her first husband was the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar; she then married physician Henry A. Callis; and last married...
51 speeches by prominent African-American leaders include Booker T. Washington's -Atlanta Compromise- address, Frederick Douglass' -What to the Slave ...