Alice Mary (Herndon) Childress (1916 - 1994)

Born 12 Oct 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Wife of Emory Alvin Childress — married 1 Jun 1935 in New York City, New York, United States

Died 14 Aug 1994 at age 77 in New York, New York, United States

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Biography

Alice (Herndon) Childress is Notable.

Alice (Herndon) Childress is a part of US Black heritage.

Alice Childress was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades.

Alice Mary Herndon was born on October 12, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.^[1]

Alice (18) married Emory Alvin Childress (27) (born on September 15, 1907 in Meridian, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States; son of John Cooper Childress and Beatrice C. Windham) on June 1, 1935 in New York City, New York.

In 1940, Alice was living in New York, New York. ^[2]

In 1950, Alice was living in New York. ^[3]

Alice (40) married Nathan Woodard (27) (born on May 20, 1929) in 1957.

Alice died on August 14, 1994 in New York, aged 77 from cancer. At the time of her death, Alice was working on a story about her African great-grandmother, Ani-Campbell, who had been a slave, and her Scots-Irish great-grandma. She was buried in Calverton National Cemetery, Calverton, Suffolk County, New York.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1343719/alice_childress-woodard: accessed April 1, 2024), memorial page for Alice Childress Herndon Woodard (12 Oct 1916–14 Aug 1994), Find a Grave Memorial ID 1343719, citing Calverton National Cemetery, Calverton, Suffolk County, New York, USA; Maintained by John 3:16-g (contributor 50588704).
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, New York, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02646; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 31-950.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1950 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022. National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: New York, New York, New York; Roll: 4547; Page: 7; Enumeration District: 31-1716.

See also:

• Wikipedia contributors. (2024, February 26). Alice Childress. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19:24, April 2, 2024, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Childress&oldid=1210351236.
• Mary Helen Washington, "Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Claudia Jones: Black Women Write the Popular Front", in Bill Mullen and James Edward Smethurst (eds), Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States, Chapel Hill/London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, p. 186.
• Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017. New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Manhattan; Volume Number: 5.
• Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Episcopal Diocese of New York Church Records, 1767-1970 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.
• The Miami Herald; Publication Date: 19 Aug 1994; Publication Place: Miami, Florida, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/638750280/?article=2c4be202-5a8d-47e1-a969-f84a04fbacea&focus=0.040910535,0.31391668,0.19776203,0.50672257&xid=3355
• https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/get-tickets/upstage-guides-current/upstage-guide-trouble-in-mind/life-work-alice-childress-trouble-in-mind/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hero_Ain%27t_Nothin%27_but_a_Sandwich_(novel)