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Title details for Song in a Weary Throat by Pauli Murray - Available

Song in a Weary Throat

Memoir of an American Pilgrimage

by Pauli Murray
Allyson Johnson
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Poet, memoirist, labor organizer, and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray helped transform the law of the land. Arrested in 1940 for sitting in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus, Murray propelled that life-defining event into a Howard law degree and a fight against "Jane Crow" sexism. Her legal brilliance was pivotal to the overturning of Plessy v. Ferguson, the success of Brown v. Board of Education, and the Supreme Court's recognition that the equal protection clause applies to women; it also connected her with such progressive leaders as Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Betty Friedan, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Now Murray is finally getting long-deserved recognition: the first African American woman to receive a doctorate of law at Yale, her name graces one of the university's new colleges. Handsomely republished with a new introduction, Murray's remarkable memoir takes its rightful place among the great civil rights autobiographies of the twentieth century.

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    May 8, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781684412075
      • File size: 568480 KB
      • Duration: 19:44:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 31, 1987
      The notable career of the late Murrayshe died in 1985descendant of a North Carolina slave and a slave owner, who, as lawyer, teacher, poet, feminist and, lastly, Episcopalian priest, worked for social justice, unfolds in this autobiography. A pioneer in many areasthe only female in her class at Howard University Law School, the first woman to receive a J.S.D. from YaleMurray carried on her family tradition of ground-breaking paths to civil rights, while as a confidante of and goad to Eleanor Roosevelt, she presaged the activist momentum of the '50s and '60s. A founder of the National Organization for Women, she was to realize the full flowering of her own feminism through ordination to the Episcopal priesthood. Murray's memoir is an affecting expression of her indomitable spirit and quest for justice. Photographs not seen by PW.

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