Author, Social Reformer. She was an early 20th century author, as well as a civil rights activist for both race and gender. After graduating from Dillard University in 1892, she taught 4 years in elementary schools before going to teach in New York City. She married African-American poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar in New York City on March 8, 1898 The couple separated in 1902, yet after Dunbar's death at age 33 in 1906 from tuberculosis, she continued to promote his writings. She taught English at Howard High School in Wilmington, Delaware from 1902 to 1920. Although the high school was public, the school received little to no funding as it was a segregated school for Black students. While at Howard High School in 1910, she married a young teacher, Arthur Callis, who would later become a Howard University Professor of Medicine. Their marriage ended in divorce by 1914. From 1924 to 1928, she was an instructor and a parole officer for delinquent or dependent African-American girls at the Industrial School for Colored Girls. She was executive secretary of the American Friends Inter-Racial Peace Committee from 1928 to 1931. She headed the 1922 Delaware Anti-Lynching Crusaders with her third husband, Robert J. Nelson, who she married in 1916. She co-edited the "Wilmington Advocate" and was a feminist. She was involved in the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Her African American, Anglo, Native American, and Creole heritage contributed to her complex understandings of gender, race, and ethnicity, which she documented in her published diary in 1994 as "Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson". At age 20, she published her first book, "Violets," in 1895. She wrote poems, a diary, volumes of short stories, plays, pageants, and 3 unpublished novels. She often used the professional name of Dunbar-Nelson. Her short stories were featured in magazines like "Leslie's Weekly" and "The Mirror." Her cause of death was natural causes.