The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman
by Ellen Tarry
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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 show more day, particularly Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson. Her devotion to the church found expression in show lessTags
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- 973.04960730092 — History & geography History of North America United States United States Ethnic And National Groups Other Groups African Americans African Americans
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- E185.97 .T37 .A3 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Biography. Genealogy
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