In the 20th century, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a writer, poet, journalist, activist and champion of preserving her story. For most of her life, she was known for her marriage to poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, so she took intentional steps to document her life \u2013 creating scrapbooks, collecting clippings and writing in diaries \u2013 to ensure her legacy would be more than \u201cwife.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Legacy of Black Women’s Archives<\/em>, visitors will learn about the incredible life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson through her own papers and collected materials. They also will discover the women who helped share Dunbar-Nelson\u2019s story by bringing her personal archive into public view, including Pauline A. Young, Dunbar-Nelson\u2019s niece, and Akasha Gloria T. Hull, UD professor and Black feminist scholar. After browsing what\u2019s on view, visitors will be inspired to reconsider how they document and preserve their own stories for future generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exhibition is on view February 6 – August 9, 2024, in the Special Collections Gallery in Morris Library. The Special Collections Gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exhibition is curated by Monet Lewis-Timmons, a doctoral candidate from UD\u2019s Department of English and Museum Studies Program. She is also an African American Public Humanities Initiatives Fellow (AAPHI) at UD. The materials on view are drawn from the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press and the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the 20th century, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a writer, poet, journalist, activist and champion of preserving her story. For most of her life, she was known for her marriage to poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, so she took intentional steps to document her life \u2013 creating scrapbooks, collecting clippings and writing in diaries \u2013 to ensure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition-splash.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alice-dunbar-nelson-legacy-black-womens-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alice-dunbar-nelson-legacy-black-womens-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alice-dunbar-nelson-legacy-black-womens-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alice-dunbar-nelson-legacy-black-womens-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alice-dunbar-nelson-legacy-black-womens-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alice-dunbar-nelson-legacy-black-womens-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alice-dunbar-nelson-legacy-black-womens-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/alice-dunbar-nelson-legacy-black-womens-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n