Nella Larsen
American
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1891/00/00 | Born | ||||||
| 1914/00/00 | Nella Larsen enrolls in the nursing school at New York City's Lincoln Hospital and Nursing Home. The institution was founded in the 19th century in Manhattan as a nursing home to care for black people. | Education | |||||
| 1915/00/00 | Upon graduating in 1915, Larsen travels south to work at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, where she soon becomes head nurse at its hospital and training school. | Work | Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site | Tuskegee | |||
| 1916/00/00 | Disillusioned with Booker T Washington's model of education and unhappy with poor working conditions for nurses at Tuskegee, Larsen returns to New York, where she works for two years as a nurse at Lincoln Hospital. | Work | Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site | Tuskegee | |||
| 1920/00/00 | Nella and Peter Larsen move to Harlem. Due to her low birth, mixed parentage and lacking a college degree, Larsen is alienated from the other black professionals, whose members emphasized college and family ties, and black fraternities and sororities. | Home | Harlem, NYC | ||||
| 1922/00/00 | Nella Larsen begins working NYC's 135th Street branch library as an assistant. She will be promoted to children's librarian in 1924. | Work | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | New York City | |||
| 1928/00/00 | Quicksand - published | Author | Quicksand (Larsen book) | ||||
| 1929/00/00 | Passing - published | Author | Passing | ||||
| 1964/00/00 | Dies |
2 Creative Works by Nella Larsen »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| Quicksand (Larsen book) | Author | Novel | 1928/00/00 |
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| Passing | Author | Book | 1929/00/00 |
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