1927 portrait of Alice Dunbar Nelson by Laura Wheeler Waring, oil on canvas. She is wearing a big yellow hat and puffy yellow dress. By Laura Wheeler Waring - National Portrait Gallery https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2016.125, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=141134713
Today in #LaborHistory, 7/19/1875: Alice Dunbar Nelson was born. #HarlemRenaissance, #poetry, #feminism, #activism. #LGBTQ. Cofounded Equal Suffrage Study Club. Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill.
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