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First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray’s Song in a
Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy
Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award among other
distinctions. Yet Murray’s name and extraordinary influence
receded from view in the intervening years; now they are once again
entering the public discourse. At last, with the republication of
this “beautifully crafted” memoir, Song in a Weary Throat takes
its rightful place among the great civil rights autobiographies of
the twentieth century. In a voice that is energetic, wry, and
direct, Murray tells of a childhood dramatically altered by the
sudden loss of her spirited, hard-working parents. Orphaned at age
four, she was sent from Baltimore to segregated Durham, North
Carolina, to live with her unflappable Aunt Pauline, who, while
strict, was liberal-minded in accepting the tomboy Pauli as “my
little boy-girl.” In fact, throughout her life, Murray would
struggle with feelings of sexual “in-betweenness”—she tried
unsuccessfully to get her doctors to give her testosterone—that
today we would recognize as a transgendered identity. We then
follow Murray north at the age of seventeen to New York City’s
Hunter College, to her embrace of Gandhi’s
Satyagraha—nonviolent resistance—and south again, where she
experienced Jim Crow firsthand. An early Freedom Rider, she was
arrested in 1940, fifteen years before Rosa Parks’ disobedience,
for sitting in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus.
Murray’s activism led to relationships with Thurgood Marshall and
Eleanor Roosevelt—who respectfully referred to Murray as a
“firebrand”—and propelled her to a Howard University law
degree and a lifelong fight against "Jane Crow" sexism. We also
read Betty Friedan’s enthusiastic response to Murray’s call for
an NAACP for Women—the origins of NOW. Murray sets these
thrilling high-water marks against the backdrop of uncertain
finances, chronic fatigue, and tragic losses both private and
public, as Patricia Bell-Scott’s engaging introduction brings to
life. Now, more than thirty years after her death in 1985,
Murray—poet, memoirist, lawyer, activist, and Episcopal
priest—gains long-deserved recognition through a rediscovered
memoir that serves as a “powerful witness” (Brittney Cooper) to
a pivotal era in the American twentieth century.
Twenty-five years of writings by the religious thinker and activist
Pauli Murray The religious thought and activism that shaped
the late twentieth century is typically described in terms of Black
men from the major Black denominations, a depiction that fails to
account for the voices of those who not only challenged racism but
also forced a confrontation with class and gender. Of these
overlooked voices, none is more important than that of Pauli Murray
(1910–1985), the nonbinary Black lawyer, activist, poet, and
Episcopal priest who influenced such icons as Ruth Bader Ginsburg
and Thurgood Marshall. Anthony B. Pinn has collected
Murray’s most important sermons, lectures, and speeches from 1960
through 1985, showcasing her religious thought and activism as well
as her original and compassionate literary voice. In highlighting
major themes in Murray’s writing—including the strength and
rights of women, faithfulness, religious community, and
suffering—Pinn’s collection reveals the evolution in Murray’s
religious ideas and her sense of ministry, unpacking her role in a
tumultuous period of American history, as well as her thriving
legacy.
This remarkable, hard-to-find resource is an exhaustive compilation
of state laws and local ordinances in effect in 1950 that mandated
racial segregation and of pre-Brown-era civil rights legislation.
The volume cites legislation from forty-eight states and the
District of Columbia, and ordinances of twenty-four major cities
across the country. The complete text of each law or ordinance is
included, along with occasional notes about its history and the
extent to which it was enforced. Other relevant information found
in the volume ranges widely: the texts of various Supreme Court
rulings; international documents; federal government executive
orders, departmental rules, regulations, and directives;
legislation related to aliens and Native Americans; and more. In
his introduction Davison M. Douglas comments on the legislation
compiled in the book and its relevance to scholars today and also
provides biographical background on Pauli Murray, the attorney who
was the volume's original editor.
First published in 1956, "Proud Shoes" is the remarkable true
story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the
pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli
Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders
of NOW, "Proud Shoes" chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal
grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith,
daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near
murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose
free black father married a white woman in 1840, "Proud Shoes"
offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.
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