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Revision as of 12:00, 3 December 2021
Brenda Ray Moryck | |
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 Brenda Ray Moryck, from the 1916 Wellesley College yearbook | |
| Born | 1894 Newark, New Jersey, US |
| Died | 1949 Washington, D.C. |
| Other names | Brenda Moryck Francke (after 1930) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, teacher |
| Relatives | Cordelia Ray (great-aunt); Charlotte E. Ray (great-aunt); Charles Bennett Ray (great-great-grandfather) |
Brenda Ray Moryck (June 1894 – 1949) was an American writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Early life and education
Brenda Ray Moryck was born in Newark, New Jersey,[1] the daughter of John W. Moryck and Sarah Rose Ray Moryck. Her father was a businessman, and her mother was an educator and clubwoman; her great-grandfather was the abolitionist editor Charles Bennett Ray.[2][3] Her great-aunts included Charlotte E. Ray and Cordelia Ray.
Moryck completed a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College in 1916, the only black graduate in her class.[4] She earned a master's degree in English literature from Howard University in 1926.[5]
Career
Moryck worked for the Newark Bureau of Charities after college, and taught physical culture at a technical school in Bordentown.[6][7] She taught English and drama at Armstrong Manual Training School in Washington, D.C. during the 1920s.[8] She wrote essays and stories published in The Crisis, Opportunity, and other national periodicals and newspapers.[9][10][11] She was also a drama critic for the New York Age,[12] and wrote at least one play, The Christmas Spirit, performed at Armstrong high school in 1927. She was active in the National Urban League, the Harlem YWCA,[13] and the NAACP in New York.[5] She was also an avid golfer.[14]
Moryck's writings are associated with the Harlem Renaissance[15][16] and have been included in several recent anthologies, among them The new Negro: Readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938 (2007), edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Gene Andrew Garrett,[17] Double-take: A revisionist Harlem Renaissance anthology (2001), edited by Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey, Harlem's Glory: Black women writing, 1900-1950 (1996), edited by Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph,[18] and Speech & power: The African-American essay and its cultural content, from polemics to pulpit (1992). edited by Gerald Early.[19] She had an unpublished novel in manuscript at the time of her death.
Personal life
Moryck married twice. Her first husband was Lucius Lee Jordan; they married in 1917 and he died before their first anniversary. She married Robert Beale Francke in 1930. She had a daughter, Betty Osborne Francke,[2][20] and a foster daughter, July Wormley.[21] She died in 1949, in Washington, D.C., in her fifties.[1]
References
- ^ a b Williams, Noelle Lorraine (2020-09-14). "The Incredible Legacy of Newark's Black Women Activists". Zócalo Public Square. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Mrs. John W. Moryck Dies Here in 80th Year; Of Old Family". The New York Age. 1942-01-24. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Our Prize Winners and What they Say of Themselves". Opportunity. 4: 189. June 1926.
- ^ "Our Graduates". The Crisis: 121. July 1916.
- ^ a b "Wellesley Celebrates the Legacy of Some of Its Earliest Black Students During Black History Month". Wellesley College. February 28, 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Bordentown Industrial". The New York Age. 1917-06-07. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "12 Graduate from Industrial School". Trenton Evening Times. 1917-06-01. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-03-02 – via Newspapers.com.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "School Orators Reach Semi-Finals". Evening Star. 1927-03-15. p. 45. Retrieved 2021-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Judith Musser, ed. (2011). "Girl, colored" and other stories : a complete short fiction anthology of African American women writers in the Crisis magazine, 1910-2010. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-4606-3. OCLC 630498177.
- ^ Sondra K. Wilson, National Urban League, ed. (1999). Opportunity reader : stories, poetry, and essays from the Urban League's Opportunity magazine. New York: Modern Library. ISBN 0-375-75379-6. OCLC 41889049.
- ^ Austin, Addell P. (1988). "The "Opportunity" and "Crisis" Literary Contests, 1924-27". CLA Journal. 32 (2): 235–246. ISSN 0007-8549. JSTOR 44322018.
- ^ "Harlem Experimental Theatre Gives 3 Plays". The New York Age. 1931-05-02. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-03-02 – via Newspapers.com.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Rabbi Lyons to Speak at Brooklyn Y.W.C.A." The New York Age. 1929-03-16. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-03-01 – via Newspapers.com.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ McDaniel, Pete (2000). Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf. American Golfer. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-888531-36-7.
- ^ Black women of the Harlem Renaissance era. Lean'tin L. Bracks, Jessie Carney Smith. Lanham. 2014. ISBN 978-0-8108-8543-1. OCLC 894554745.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Caughie, Pamela L. (September 2012). ""The best people": The Making of the Black Bourgeoisie in Writings of the Negro Renaissance". Modernism/Modernity. 20 (3): 519–537. doi:10.1353/mod.2013.0064.
- ^ Gates, Henry Louis; Jarrett, Gene Andrew (2007). The new Negro: readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. OCLC 608490813.
- ^ Roses, Lorraine Elena; Randolph, Ruth Elizabeth (1996). Harlem's glory : Black women writing, 1900-1950. Internet Archive. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-37269-6.
- ^ Speech & power : the African-American essay and its cultural content, from polemics to pulpit. Internet Archive. Hopewell, NJ : Ecco Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-88001-264-5.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Letter from Brenda Moryck Francke to W. E. B. Du Bois, October 14, 1941, W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- ^ "C. C. S. Girls Meet in Staten Island". The New York Age. 1930-04-12. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-03-02 – via Newspapers.com.
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External links
- "Johnsons, John B. Nail, John E. Nail, Grayce Fairfax Nail, Brenda Moryck, Bertha Randolph, Clara Wood, Great Barrington, Massachusetts", a photograph of Moryck and others taken in 1928, from the James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson papers, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
