The story, fact presented as fiction of the boyhood and youth of one of our greatest African-American poets. He was also a baseball pitcher,a musician, student, advocate of education for the children of his race, and active in the achievements ofthe NAACP

Young Jim the Early Years of James Weldon Johnson

TARRY, Ellen

Dodd, Mead, & Company

My Dog Rinty

Children's Books

Ets, Marie Hall

Animals

Viking Juvenile

The Runaway Elephant

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 social work activities, first in Harlem, then in Chicago, and, during World War II, in Anniston, Alabama, where she directed a USO for black soldiers stationed at Fort McClellan. Tarry wrote several books for young readers, including biographies of James Weldon Johnson and Pierre Toussaint. She continued her social work career after the war and now lives in New York.Devoid of pronounced racial markings, Tarry’s 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. With prose that is both moving and powerful, Tarry relates her life against the background of a changing American society. She still awaits the third door, designated neither “white” nor “colored,” through which all American will someday walk.

The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman (Library of Alabama Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

McKay, Nellie Y.

Community & Culture

University Alabama Press

Other Toussaint a Modern Biography

Pauline Books & Media

The other Toussaint: A modern biography of Pierre Toussaint, a post-revolutionary Black

St. Paul Editions

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Pierre Toussaint: Apostle of Old New York

This Vision book for youth tells the beautiful story of American's recently canonized saint and servant of the oppressed, St. Katharine Drexel. Born in 1858 to Francis and Emma Drexel, Katharine grew up in a happy, devout, and wealthy Catholic family in Philadelphia. Her parents were greatly loved and admired by many for their kindness and generosity to the poor and needy.
 After the death of her parents the young Katharine decided to use all the fortune she had inherited to help the less fortunate in America, especially the Indians and African Americans. Acting upon the words she had heard come from a statue of Our Lady, "Freely you have received, freely give", and from the direct advice given her by Pope Leo XIII to become a missionary, Katharine Drexel became a religious sister and founded the order of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1891. Mother Katharine and her sisters worked tirelessly to serve the material and spiritual needs of the downtrodden through numerous schools and institutions she established around the country. She died in 1955, and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2001.

Saint Katharine Drexel, Friend of the Oppressed

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman

Praeger

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