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Author : Simki Kuznick
Release : 2022-03
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Book Rating : 770/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life by : Simki Kuznick
Download or read book Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life written by Simki Kuznick. This book was released on 2022-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Well researched with careful detail; beautifully and thoughtfully written."-Carol Carter, actor and playwright
Author : Troy R. Saxby
Release : 2020-03-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 938/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pauli Murray by : Troy R. Saxby
Download or read book Pauli Murray written by Troy R. Saxby. This book was released on 2020-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (1910–1985) was a trailblazing social activist, writer, lawyer, civil rights organizer, and campaigner for gender rights. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was active in radical left-wing political groups and helped innovate nonviolent protest strategies against segregation that would become iconic in later decades, and in the 1960s, she cofounded the National Organization for Women (NOW). In addition, Murray became the first African American to receive a Yale law doctorate and the first black woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest. Yet, behind her great public successes, Murray battled many personal demons, including bouts of poor physical and mental health, conflicts over her gender and sexual identities, family traumas, and financial difficulties. In this intimate biography, Troy Saxby provides the most comprehensive account of Murray's inner life to date, revealing her struggles in poignant detail and deepening our understanding and admiration of her numerous achievements in the face of pronounced racism, homophobia, transphobia, and political persecution. Saxby interweaves the personal and the political, showing how the two are always entwined, to tell the life story of one of twentieth-century America's most fascinating and inspirational figures.
Author : Terry Catasús Jennings
Release : 2022-02-22
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 523/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pauli Murray by : Terry Catasús Jennings
Download or read book Pauli Murray written by Terry Catasús Jennings. This book was released on 2022-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Pauli Murray is a groundbreaking new nonfiction book intended for the middle grade audience written in verse. Pauli Murray was a thorn in the side of white America demanding justice and equal treatment for all. She was a queer civil rights and women's rights activist before any movement advocated for either--the brilliant mind that, in 1944, conceptualized the arguments that would win Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; and in 1964, the arguments that won women equality in the workplace. Throughout her life, she fought for the oppressed, not only through changing laws, but by using her powerful prose to influence those who could affect change. She lived by her convictions and challenged authority to demand fairness and justice regardless of the personal consequences. Without seeking acknowledgment, glory, or financial gain for what she did, Pauli Murray fought in the trenches for many of the rights we take for granted. Her goal was human rights and the dignity of life for all.
Author : Casey Miller
Release : 1980
Genre : North Carolina
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Book Synopsis Pauli Murray by : Casey Miller
Download or read book Pauli Murray written by Casey Miller. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Bell-Scott
Release : 2017-01-24
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 290/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Firebrand and the First Lady by : Patricia Bell-Scott
Download or read book The Firebrand and the First Lady written by Patricia Bell-Scott. This book was released on 2017-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • The riveting history of how Pauli Murray—a brilliant writer-turned-activist—and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America. “A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt.” —Essence In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old Pauli Murray wrote a letter to the President and First Lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, protesting racial segregation in the South. Eleanor wrote back. So began a friendship that would last for a quarter of a century, as Pauli became a lawyer, principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a co-founder of the National Organization of Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat and first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
