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Author Wright, Mary Herring, 1924-2018.

Title Far from home : memories of World War II and afterward / Mary Herring Wright
Published Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 232 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Far from Home -- 1 A Trip North -- 2 The Start of My Big City Life -- 3 A New Job -- 4 Cute Boy on the Train -- 5 A Place of My Own -- 6 Happy with My Life -- 7 Changing Times -- 8 Home for the Holidays -- 9 A Visit from Mama -- 10 Terrible News -- 11 Big Decision -- 12 Back Home -- 13 Together Again -- 14 Victory at Last -- 15 A New Beginning -- 16 Hurricane Hazel -- 17 Ups and Downs -- 18 Holidays without Mama -- 19 Cousin Bert -- 20 So, the Winter Is Past and Gone -- 21 Changes -- 22 A New Time
Summary Annotation Wright continues her memoirs, describing her life as a Deaf, African American woman working in Washington, DC, during World War II, then raising a family in her hometown of Iron Mine, NC
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Subject Wright, Mary Herring, 1924-2018
SUBJECT Wright, Mary Herring, 1924-2018 fast
Subject Deaf women -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography
African American women -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
African American women
Deaf women
Gehörlosigkeit
Schwarze Frau
Washington (D.C.)
Washington, DC
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographie.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005040031
ISBN 1563683296
9781563683299
9781563683190
1563683199