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Author Wright, Mary Herring, 1924-2018.

Title Far from home : memories of World War II and afterward / Mary Herring Wright.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 232 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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""
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Subject Wright, Mary Herring, 1924-2018.
Wright, Mary Herring, 1924-2018.
Deaf women -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
Deaf women.
Washington (D.C.)
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African American women -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
African American women.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1941-2004.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Autobiographie.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Print version: Wright, Mary Herring, 1924- Far from home. Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2005040031
ISBN 1563683296 (electronic book)
9781563683299 (electronic book)
9781563683190 (alkaline paper)
1563683199 (alkaline paper)
1563683199 (alkaline paper)