With Ossie and Ruby

by Davis, Ossie; Dee, Ruby

• ISBN13: 9780688153960
• ISBN10: 0688153968
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co

Summary

Published to coincide with their 50th wedding anniversary, this captivating, inspiring autobiography of Ossie and Ruby Davis lifts the veil of public image, media hype, and mystique to reveal the real-life dilemmas and rewards of their lifelong search for purpose and value. of photos.

Table of Contents

Prologue	xiii
PART ONE Before We Met	3	(148)
CHAPTER 1 Ruby Is Born at Seven	3	(4)
CHAPTER 2 Ossie Is Still a Mistake	7	(5)
CHAPTER 3 Under One Roof	12	(8)
CHAPTER 4 The Waycross Years	20	(10)
CHAPTER 5 From the Fire Escape	30	(11)
CHAPTER 6 Center High School and Valdosta, 1930-1934	41	(15)
CHAPTER 7 Ruby's Harlem	56	(16)
CHAPTER 8 The Howard Years, 1935-1939	72	(16)
CHAPTER 9 Steps Along the Way	88	(11)
CHAPTER 10 Ossie's Harlem	99	(21)
CHAPTER 11 Some Men in My Life	120	(4)
CHAPTER 12 World War Two, 1942-1945	124	(15)
CHAPTER 13 Ruby Turning Corners	139	(5)
CHAPTER 14 Home Is the Soldier	144	(3)
CHAPTER 15 We Meet	147	(4)
PART TWO	151	(296)
CHAPTER 16 Jeb: The Play Is the Thing	151	(6)
CHAPTER 17 The American Negro Theatre: Anna Lucasta	157	(15)
CHAPTER 18 The Fight Never Ends	172	(10)
CHAPTER 19 Hookin' Up	182	(5)
CHAPTER 20 Movies and Complications	187	(15)
CHAPTER 21 Giant Steps	202	(20)
CHAPTER 22 Tall Targets	222	(9)
CHAPTER 23 Connections to the Left	231	(8)
CHAPTER 24 The World of Sholom Aleichem and Beyond	239	(13)
CHAPTER 25 The Plot Thickens	252	(19)
CHAPTER 26 New Work, New Territory	271	(9)
CHAPTER 27 Big Breakthroughs	280	(15)
CHAPTER 28 Struggle, Realities, and Art	295	(9)
CHAPTER 29 Marches, Movements, and Martyrs	304	(11)
CHAPTER 30 Sex Comes out of the Closet	315	(11)
CHAPTER 31 In Control, but Still in Crisis	326	(20)
CHAPTER 32 The Family Comes of Age	346	(18)
CHAPTER 33 A Teaspoonful of Power	364	(13)
CHAPTER 34 We, the Family, Become a Company	377	(19)
CHAPTER 35 Going Through the Fire	396	(8)
CHAPTER 36 My One Good Nerve	404	(11)
CHAPTER 37 Now That We Are Elders	415	(10)
CHAPTER 38 Love, Marriage, and Struggle	425	(15)
CHAPTER 39 A Bridge to Ourselves	440	(7)
Appendix	447	(12)
Index	459