![]() ![]() In New York, she took a position at the National Urban League. to be the most racist city she had been to yet. ![]() She lost her job at the Chicago Defender for no reason and found Washington D.C. Chicago treated her no better.įanny's first husband was the drizzling shits her second husband ran off to join the 366th infantry and decided he liked it a lot better than his wife. I am going to make it my business be one of the smartest too." She transferred from Fisk to Iowa, where she was even unhappier at the larger, almost all-white school. When she enrolled at Fisk, she told her mother, "I think I am the best looking girl in the freshman class. Due to Jim Crow laws she was never allowed onstage.ĭisillusionment came to Fanny quickly. ![]() She had studied theater at the University of Iowa after transferring from Fisk College in Nashville. She was slightly older, still gorgeous, having changed the spelling of her name from Fannie to Fanny as a way of putting the sexual abuse by her stepfather behind her. ![]() Ralph and Fanny met thirteen years earlier. In 1957, Ralph Ellison told his second wife Fanny McConnell that their marriage had been a disappointment to him. ![]()
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