On This Day In Alabama History: Author And Journalist Ellen Tarry Born

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Ellen Tarry – one of Alabama’s connections to the Harlem Renaissance – was born on this day in 1906.

An author and journalist, Tarry was part of a movement which included poet Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and James Weldon Johnson. Her worldview was informed by experiences outside the state, but came full-circle to her autobiography published in 1955. That book, written immediately after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, was more optimistic than most.

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