Early Life
Velma Nacella Young was born in rural Illinois and attended Blackburn College during the Great Depression. She was a member of the American Socialist Party, which she joined at the age of 22. Feeling that social norms compelled her to find a husband, she married William Jerry Tate in 1939, and they had a son, Marshall, in 1940, and twins Jerry and James in 1942.
Velma Tate worked as a schoolteacher and a secretary until the 1950s while also selling poems, articles, and short stories to magazines that included Canadian Poetry Magazine, Good Housekeeping, True Love and True Story.
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