| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 476 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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.
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Dee, Ruby.
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Actors -- United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Dee, Ruby.
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| ISBN |
0688153968 |
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