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The third door : the autobiography of an American Negro woman / Ellen Tarry ; with an introduction by Nellie Y. McKay.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of Alabama classicsPublication details: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1992.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 319 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585211655
  • 9780585211657
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Third door.DDC classification:
  • 973/.04960730092 B 21
LOC classification:
  • E185.97.T37 A3 1992eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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