Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of July 19th
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It is the 200th day of the year, leaving 165 days remaining in 2022.
She told stories of gender, ethnicity, and racial heritage from a personal perspective. She wrote about women in education and in the anti-lynching movement.
In verse, in essays, and in short story forms, she wrote in newspapers, in letters, and in her diaries. Indeed, she was one of the few Black women diarists in the early 20th Century.
She was the daughter of a former enslaved woman and a white, Creole seaman. Her first collection, Violets and Other Tales, was published in 1895. She moved to Massachusetts and then New York, where she met and married the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. The couple had a stormy four-year marriage.
She moved to Delaware, where she taught high school.
Another collection she wrote, The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories, helped establish her as a writer of Creole culture.
In 1916, she married for a third time, to the poet and journalist Robert J. Nelson. She followed him into greater activism, with her campaigning for women's suffrage, racial peace, the NAACP, and anti-lynching laws.
She continued to edit and write for various publications, including the A.M.E. Review, The Wilmington Advocate, The Crisis, The Journal of Negro History, The Washington Eagle, and The Pittsburgh Courier.
She died in 1935 in Philadelphia.
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