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With Ossie and Ruby : in this life together

Title
  1. With Ossie and Ruby : in this life together / Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.
Published by
  1. New York : W. Morrow, 1998.
  2. ©1998
Author
  1. Davis, Ossie

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Additional authors
  1. Dee, Ruby
Description
  1. xvi, 476 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  1. "In a joint memoir that celebrates half a century of successful marriage, they look back on the extraordinary careers that earned each a Presidential Medal for Lifetime Achievement."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Civil rights workers
  2. Community activists
  3. Actors
  4. Black author
  5. Biographies
  6. United States
  7. Dee, Ruby
  8. Davis, Ossie
  9. African Americans > Biography
  10. Civil rights workers > United States > Biography
  11. Community activists > United States > Biography
  12. African American actresses > Biography
  13. Actors > United States > Biography
  14. African American actors > Biography
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies.
Contents
  1. Before We Met -- Ruby Is Born at Seven -- Ossie Is Still a Mistake -- Under One Roof -- The Waycross Years -- From the Fire Escape -- Center High School and Valdosta, 1930-1934 -- Ruby's Harlem -- The Howard Years, 1935-1939 -- Steps Along the Way -- Ossie's Harlem -- Some Men in My Life -- World War Two, 1942-1945 -- Ruby Turning Corners -- Home Is the Soldier -- We Meet -- Jeb: The Play Is the Thing -- The American Negro Theatre: Anna Lucasta -- The Fight Never Ends -- Hookin' Up -- Movies and Complications -- Giant Steps -- Tall Targets -- Connections to the Left -- The World of Sholom Aleichem and Beyond -- The Plot Thickens -- New Work, New Territory -- Big Breakthroughs -- Struggle, Realities, and Art -- Marches, Movements, and Martyrs -- Sex Comes out of the Closet -- In Control, but Still in Crisis -- The Family Comes of Age -- A Teaspoonful of Power -- We, the Family, Become a Company -- Going Through the Fire -- My One Good Nerve -- Now That We Are Elders -- Love, Marriage, and Struggle -- A Bridge to Ourselves.
Call number
  1. Sc E 23-299
Note
  1. Includes index.
Author
  1. Davis, Ossie, author.
Title
  1. With Ossie and Ruby : in this life together / Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.
Publisher
  1. New York : W. Morrow, 1998.
Copyright date
  1. ©1998
Edition
  1. 1st ed.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Local note
  1. Library has authors authographed copy.
  2. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Local subject
  1. Black author.
Added author
  1. Dee, Ruby, author.
LCCN
  1. 98035621
ISBN
  1. 0688153968
  2. 9780688153960
Research call number
  1. Sc E 23-299
  2. MWER 98-13219
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