{"id":2080,"date":"2013-04-23T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2015-05-06T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T21:06:01","slug":"vroman-mary-elizabeth-cunningham-1925-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"VROMAN, MARY ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM, 1925-1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher; writer. Born&#8211; 1925 in Buffalo, N.Y. Parents Charles and ____ Cunningham. Married&#8211; Oliver M. Harper. Education&#8211; Alabama State University, B.A., 1949. \u00a0Reared in the West Indies. Taught at Camden Academy, Camden, Ala.; in Sylacauga and Montgomery, Ala.; and in Chicago and New York. Music and art coordinator for the New York City Board of Education &#8220;Higher Horizons&#8221; program. Technical advisor for one of her stories (&#8220;See How They Run&#8221;, which was made into Metro-Goldwin-Mayer&#8217;s &#8220;Bright Road&#8221;. First\u00a0African-American woman member of the Screen Writers Guild. Awarded the Christopher for inspirational magazine writing.\u00a0 Died April 29, 1967.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Selected Black American Writers; Black American Writers; New York Times, April 30, 1967.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esther. New York; Bantam, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Harlem Summer. New York; Putnam, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Shaped to its Purpose; Delta Sigma Theta, the First Fifty Years. New York; Random, 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher; writer. Born&#8211; 1925 in Buffalo, N.Y. Parents Charles and ____ Cunningham. Married&#8211; Oliver M. Harper. Education&#8211; Alabama State University, B.A., 1949. \u00a0Reared in the West Indies. Taught at Camden Academy, Camden, Ala.; in Sylacauga and Montgomery, Ala.; and in Chicago and New York. Music and art coordinator for the New York City Board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4313,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}