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Carrie Allen McCray was born on 4 October, 1913 in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, is an American writer. Discover Carrie Allen McCray's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 4 October 1913
Birthday 4 October
Birthplace Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
Date of death 25 July, 2008
Died Place Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Nationality United States

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1906

She Served as its president from 1906 to 1908 after the death of her husband, Gregory W. Hayes.

He led the seminary as president until his death in 1906.

When Carrie was 8 years old, her parents moved the family to Montclair, New Jersey where various black intellectuals visited, including the poet Langston Hughes.

Carrie attended Spaulding Elementary School, Hillside Junior High, and Montclair High School.

1913

Carrie Allen McCray (October 4, 1913 – July 25, 2008) was an African-American writer.

Carrie Allen was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, October 4, 1913, and raised in that city, where she came to know poet Anne Spencer, a friend of her mother.

Initially educated at the Virginia Seminary Primary School, she was the ninth of ten children.

Her father, William Patterson Allen, was a lawyer and her mother, Mary Rice Hayes Allen, was a college teacher at the Virginia Seminary and College, a historically black institution now known as Virginia University of Lynchburg.

1916

Ota Benga was a pygmy tribal member and former slave from Africa who had been put on exhibition as an anthropological exhibit before being brought to the Virginia Seminary in Lynchburg by its president Gregory W. Hayes and who lived with the family until Ota's death in 1916.

1935

She received her bachelor of arts degree from Talladega College in 1935 and her master's degree in social work from New York University in 1955.

1940

Meanwhile, in 1940 she married Winfield Scott Young, and they had a son, Winfield Scott Young Jr., before the marriage ended in divorce in 1945.

1960

Her second husband organized the Black Progressive Democratic Party after World War II and claimed victory for electing moderate Olin Johnson over segregationist Strom Thurmond during Massive Resistance in the 1960s.

McCray wrote about the racial and gender tensions she experienced, including frightening telephone calls the Allen family received after moving into a white neighborhood in New Jersey, and her travels in the South in the 1960s with Indira, an Indian friend, particularly visiting a cousin at Auburn University.

McCray took up writing seriously beginning when she was 73 years old, and in addition to encouraging younger writers, taught poetry workshops in elementary schools.

She was a member of the first board of directors of the South Carolina Writers Workshop, and the namesake for its literary award.

She was also a member of the Board of Governors of the South Carolina Academy of Authors.

1966

Her published works include Ajös Means Goodbye (1966) and The Black Woman and Family Roles (1980).

1986

She later married John H. McCray, a Florida-born journalist and civil and political rights activist in South Carolina, and moved to Columbia, South Carolina by 1986.

1998

Her memoir, Freedom’s Child: The Life of a Confederate General’s Black Daughter (1998) describes her return to Lynchburg to seek out her family history, as well as stories of her grandfather, CSA General (and later Virginia probate official) John R. Jones.

Her poems appeared in such magazines as Ms. and The River Styx.

Ota Benga Under My Mother's Roof was her last collection of poems (edited by Kevin Simmonds) and published by University of South Carolina Press.

2007

In October 2007, a theatrical adaptation of the collection (with original music by Simmonds) debuted at the Columbia Museum of Art, with McCray as narrator.

2008

McCray died on July 25, 2008, aged 94.