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With Ossie and Ruby : in this life together
- Title
- With Ossie and Ruby : in this life together / Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.
- Author
- Davis, Ossie
- Publication
- New York : W. Morrow, 1998.
- ©1998
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 98-1584 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Dee, Ruby
- Description
- xvi, 476 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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
- Davis, Ossie
- Dee, Ruby
- African American actors > Biography
- African American actresses > Biography
- Actors > United States > Biography
- Community activists > United States > Biography
- Civil rights workers > United States > Biography
- African Americans > Biography
- Actors
- African American actors
- African American actresses
- Community activists
- Civil rights workers
- African Americans
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- 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
- Sc E 23-299
- ISBN
- 0688153968
- 9780688153960
- LCCN
- 98035621
- OCLC
- 39456016
- Author
- Davis, Ossie, author.
- Title
- With Ossie and Ruby : in this life together / Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.
- Publisher
- New York : W. Morrow, 1998.
- Copyright Date
- ©1998
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Library has authors authographed copy.Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Dee, Ruby, author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-299MWER 98-13219