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The Third Door; The Autobiography Of An American Negro Woman
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Ellen Tarry
The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman: Tarry was devoid of pronounced African-American racial markings, and her interactions with white Americans were not characterized by fear or distrust, but when her own brown daughter was subjected to racial discrimination she wrote The Third Door in 1955 to tell America about the plight of her people.
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It is hard to accept just how racist this country was, and probably still is, in a lot of ways and places, including between blacks themselves. Raised in Alabama, Ellen Tarry converted to Catholicism in her teens, during a college-prep year at a Catholic boarding school for girls, which was run by the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, the order founded by St. Katherine Drexel. At the time of Tarry's attendance there in the 1920s, the saint was alive and active. With fair skin and red hair, Tarry
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This book was given to me more than a decade ago by Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb of Mobile, when I first interviewed him for my research on Spring Hill's desegregation. The narrative of this Alabama Catholic, an African American woman who could pass for white, is engrossing. I'm already a third of the way through it.
Tarry managed to be in Harlem during the later years of the Renaissance. She was also rubbed elbows with white Catholic college students who were influenced by the Jesuit, John La Farg ...more
Tarry managed to be in Harlem during the later years of the Renaissance. She was also rubbed elbows with white Catholic college students who were influenced by the Jesuit, John La Farg ...more
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