Celebrating Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s work

Reception Room at the White Rose Mission,1890s.

Here are our Past Events

2024

  • Black Boys, Dolls, and Textual Histories: Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “His Heart’s Desire” (1900), American Antiquarian Society program.

  • 150th Anniversary Celebration of Dunbar-Nelson's birth, in conjunction with American Antiquarian Society, University of Delaware and the Delaware and Philadelphia NAACP.

  • Denise Burgher, Brigitte Fielder, and Jean Lutes facilitated two in-person professional development sessions on “Including Early Black Women Intellectuals” (for Grades 6-12) at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. These sessions, featuring archival materials and some of the videos from our website, were part of the district’s first in-person professional development event since the pandemic.

  • Denise Burgher and Brigitte Fielder facilitated two virtual professional development sessions on “Including Early Black Women Intellectuals” for the School District of Philadelphia.

  • Teaching Black History presentation, Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literary, University of Buffalo. Conference theme: Black to the Future: Afro-futurism as Black History.

  • Roundtable on Recovering Early Black Women Writers for Children, Children’s Literature Association conference, Madison, WI.

  • Professional development sessions on including early Black women intellectuals for K-12 classroom teachers, School District of Philadelphia.

  • Speakers on “Gen Z and C19: Affirming Student Scholars” panel at C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists conference in Pasadena, CA.

  • Jenine Hazlewood, “What were they made for? A Timeline of the Black Barbie Doll,” Africana Studies Lecture Series, School District of Philadelphia. [use flyer for visual interest if you think it looks good here]

  • Faith in Florida’s Black History National Convening, Training, Orlando, FL 

  • Modern Language Association Annual Meeting Recentering Black Women Intellectuals: A Philadelphia School District Collaboration, Roundtable Session

  • Virtual discussion of "His Heart's Desire" and the official electronic publishing of all versions including the audio reading

2023

  • Presented to the Villanova Freedom School, PA

  • Presented to the McNulty Advisory Council, New York, NY

  • Student panel at Gender and Women’s Studies Student Research Conference, Villanova University

  • Presented to Philly School District, for Women's History Month webinar on "Language of Feminine Liberation" Virtual

  • Freedom School 2023, "Representation: Black Female Writers in Philadelphia Classrooms & Beyond"

2022

  • ASALH roundtable: Recovering Black Women Writers for Black Children’s Health and Well-Being: A Philadelphia School District Collaboration.

  • Dunbar-Nelson Day: Part of VU Pride week

  • Student trip to Dunbar-Nelson Papers at the University of Delaware Special Collections

  • Chicago Public Library virtual discussion of the ‘Steenth Street stories published in The Chicago Daily News – an event that inspired the Chicago library to print out hard copies of two stories to share with patrons!