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In this time period, Nelson was removed from teaching at Howard High School for attending Social Justice Day on October 1, 1920 against the will of Principal Ray Wooten. Wooten states that Nelson was removed for, "political activity" and incompatibility." Despite the backing of the Board of Education's Conwell Banton against Nelson's firing, she decided not to return to Howard High School. In 1928, Nelson became Executive Secretary of the American Friends Inter-Racial Peace Committee. In 1928, Nelson also spoke on The American Negro Labor Congress Forum in Philadelphia. Nelson's topic was Inter-Racial Peace and its Relation to Labor. Dunbar-Nelson also wrote for the Washington Eagle. Nelson wrote for the Washington Eagle's "As In A Looking Glass" columns from 1926 to 1930. Nelson lived in New Orleans for twenty-one years. During this time Nelson studied art and music, and she learned to play the piano and cello. In 1897, Nelson alongside Earle Matthews established a school entitled White Rose Mission. The school would later develop into White Rose Home for Girls in Harlem. Nelson taught at the school from 1897 until 1898. After resigning, Nelson would later begin teaching n Brownsville, east New York City. In 1930, Nelson traveled throughout the country lecturing. Nelson traveled thousands of miles, presented at thirty-seven educational institutions. Nelson also spoke at YW, YMCAs, and churches. Nelson’s achievements were documented by Friends Service Committee Newsletter.

"I Sit and Sew" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson is a three stanza poem written 1918. In stanza one, the speaker address the unless task of sitting and sewing as opposed engaging in activity that aids soldiers at war. In doing so, the speaker address issues of social norms and the expectation of women as domestic servants. As the poem continues into stanza two, the speaker continues to express the desire to venture beyond the confines of social exceptions by furthering the imagery of war as opposed to domestic duty, yet the speaker resolves the second stanza with the refrain of the first, "I must Sit and Sew." By doing so, the speaker amplifies the arresting realties of domestic duty attributed to womanhood in the 1900s. In the third and final stanza, the speaker further amplifies desire and passion by saying both the living and dead call for my help. In ending, the speaker ask God," must I sit and sew?" In doing so, the speaker appeals to heavenly intervention to further amplify the message within the poem.~

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