"In April 1895, the up-and-coming poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, whom Frederick Douglass had dubbed 'the most promising young colored man in America,' saw a poem by a young writer, Alice Ruth Moore, accompanied by a photograph in which she appeared stylish and beautiful. He wrote to her immediately at her home on Palmyra Street in New Orleans, expressing his admiration, and they began an intense epistolary courtship that lasted two years. ..."
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