Book description
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…
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This is Dr. Pauli Murray’s autobiography, and what a portrait of an amazing life it is!
Murray was involved in the early years of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S., was a founding member of the National Organization for Women, was a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt as well as being a groundbreaking lawyer, a poet, and finally, the first Black person to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.
Murray’s work analyzing laws versus customs that enforced Jim Crow in the South was used to fight segregation as well as subsequent boosts to the rights of women and LGBTQ people.…
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