Career
Her poems have appeared in such magazines as Mississippi and The River Styx. Ota Benga Under My Mother"s Roof, her last collection of poems (edited by Kevin Simmonds) was published by University of South Carolina Press. 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.
McCray, who made her home in Columbia, South Carolina, since 1986, was the widow of John H. McCray, a South Carolina journalist and civil and political rights activist.
She died on July 25, 2008, aged 94. "I never thought of myself as a writer — only as a social worker and teacher who wrote and loved to write.
Foreign me, it had to be validated. lieutenant took Freedom’s Child to do that.".
