The third door : the autobiography of an American Negro woman /
Tarry, Ellen, 1906-2008.
The third door : the autobiography of an American Negro woman / Ellen Tarry ; with an introduction by Nellie Y. McKay. - Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1992. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 319 pages) : illustrations - The Library of Alabama classics . - Library of Alabama classics. .
Introduction by Nellie Y. McKay; Foreword; Chapter 1: Africa Beckons; Chapter 2: The Year of Change; Chapter 3: The Castle and My Prisoner; Chapter 4: Belated Heritage; Chapter 5: My First Mission; Chapter 6: A Column is Born; Chapter 7: New York; Chapter 8: Sugar Hill ; Chapter 9: The Music Went Round and Round; Chapter 10 The House of Friendship; Chapter 11: Signs of the Times; Chapter 12: Angry Harlem; Chapter 13: Memories of Chicago!; Chapter 14: USO Diary; Chapter 15: The Land of the Free; Chapter 16: Legacy for Tomorrow; Afterword: Ten Eventful Years, 1955-1965
Ellen Tarry was born in 1906 in Birmingham, Alabama. While attending a Catholic school in Virginia during her teens, she joined the Church. She returned to Alabama to attend college at Alabama State Normal School for Colored in Montgomery and then taught in the Birmingham Public Schools from 1924 to 1926. In pursuit of her dream of becoming a writer, Tarry moved to New York, where she worked for black newspapers and became acquainted with some of the prominent black artists and writers of the day, particularly Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson. Her devotion to the church found expression in.
0585211655 9780585211657
Tarry, Ellen, 1906-2008.
Tarry, Ellen, 1906-2008
African Americans--Biography.
African American women--Biography.
Noirs américains--Biographies.
Noires américaines--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--African American Studies.
African American women
African Americans
Race relations
United States--Race relations.
États-Unis--Relations raciales.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
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Herinneringen (vorm)
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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The third door : the autobiography of an American Negro woman / Ellen Tarry ; with an introduction by Nellie Y. McKay. - Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1992. - 1 online resource (xxvi, 319 pages) : illustrations - The Library of Alabama classics . - Library of Alabama classics. .
Introduction by Nellie Y. McKay; Foreword; Chapter 1: Africa Beckons; Chapter 2: The Year of Change; Chapter 3: The Castle and My Prisoner; Chapter 4: Belated Heritage; Chapter 5: My First Mission; Chapter 6: A Column is Born; Chapter 7: New York; Chapter 8: Sugar Hill ; Chapter 9: The Music Went Round and Round; Chapter 10 The House of Friendship; Chapter 11: Signs of the Times; Chapter 12: Angry Harlem; Chapter 13: Memories of Chicago!; Chapter 14: USO Diary; Chapter 15: The Land of the Free; Chapter 16: Legacy for Tomorrow; Afterword: Ten Eventful Years, 1955-1965
Ellen Tarry was born in 1906 in Birmingham, Alabama. While attending a Catholic school in Virginia during her teens, she joined the Church. She returned to Alabama to attend college at Alabama State Normal School for Colored in Montgomery and then taught in the Birmingham Public Schools from 1924 to 1926. In pursuit of her dream of becoming a writer, Tarry moved to New York, where she worked for black newspapers and became acquainted with some of the prominent black artists and writers of the day, particularly Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson. Her devotion to the church found expression in.
0585211655 9780585211657
Tarry, Ellen, 1906-2008.
Tarry, Ellen, 1906-2008
African Americans--Biography.
African American women--Biography.
Noirs américains--Biographies.
Noires américaines--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--African American Studies.
African American women
African Americans
Race relations
United States--Race relations.
États-Unis--Relations raciales.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Herinneringen (vorm)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
E185.97.T37 / A3 1992eb
973/.04960730092 B