Her first anthology for students, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence (1914) is a compilation of addresses and speeches by both her contemporaries and prominent African Americans of the past. Represented here are such figures as Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, Fanny Jackson Coppin, and W. E. B. Du Bois in a volume dedicated "To the boys and girls of the Negro race ... with the hope that it may help inspire them with a belief in their own possibilities."