To understand who she was, however, requires going back to her first twenty years in her hometown of New Orleans where she was born in 1875 to a formerly enslaved woman and a man whom her family would not discuss publicly. The State Library of Louisiana is located at 701 North 4th Street, Baton Rouge, LA.īy the time of her death in Philadelphia, PA, in 1935, Alice Dunbar-Nelson had earned a reputation as a fierce fighter for political and racial justice. The presentation will be held in the first floor Seminar Center of the State Library in Baton Rouge on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, at 12:00 p.m. Green, author of Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Louisiana Center for the Book Presents its Inaugural Women’s History Month ProgramīATON ROUGE, La. – The Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana will present its inaugural program celebrating Women’s History Month with a presentation by Louisiana native Dr.
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