The Third Door - The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Tarry
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.1992
• EAN: 9780817305796
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-0579-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 218 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Series: Library of Alabama Classics; Library Alabama Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology