Pauli Murray/Timeline

PAULI MURRAY (20 November1910 - 1 July 1985)

Timeline

1910:"20 November" – born Anna Pauline Murray in Baltimore MD USA

1928:entered Hunter College, New York City NY USA

1938:"December" – applied to and refused entry into the University of North Carolina

1940:"March" – arrested for refusing to sit on the back of a bus in Petersburg, Virginia, in an incident of racial bias

1942
* As a friend of Fellowship of Reconciliation Campus Travelers, James L. Farmer and Bayard Rustin she adopted the nonviolent techniques of the new Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) for restaurant sit-ins in Washington, D.C., representing seventeen women who sat-in at restaurants, while she was a law student, at Howard University.

*"All For Mr. Davis: Odell Waller’s story" as told by Pauli Murray and Murray Kempton with a preface by President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina and a statement of the bearing of the poll tax on Waller’s case and on the "right to a fair jury and a free vote" was published by the Workers Defense League and re-published by the League For Adult Education.

1944
*received LL.B from Howard University, Washington DC USA
*awarded Rosenwald Fellowship but refused entry to Harvard University as a result of gender bias

1945
*received LL.M from University of California, Berkeley CA USA
*became the first African-American woman to serve as an Assistant Attorney General for the state of California

1946
*ran for the New York City Council (Brooklyn), came in second
*named Woman of the Year by the National Council of Negro Women

1947:named Woman of the Year by "Mademoiselle" magazine

1950:"States' Laws on Race and Color" was published by Woman’s Division of Christian Service, Board of Missions of the Methodist Church.

1952:lost a post at Cornell University because her references were considered too radical.
Her references? Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph

1956
*hired by Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison, New York City NY USA
*"October" – "Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family" was published by Harper & Row

1960:traveled to and was a senior lecturer at the Ghana School of Law in Accra, Ghana

1961
*appointed to the President's Commission on the Status of Women Committee on Civil and Political Rights
*"The constitution and government of Ghana" by Leslie Rubin and Pauli Murray was published by Sweet & Maxwell, London, England, United Kingdom. A second edition was published in 1964 by Sweet & Maxwell as well as African Universities Press of Lagos, Nigeria.

1965:received J.S.D. from Yale University, New Haven CT USA

1966:co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW)

1967
*served as vice-president and professor of Political Science at Benedict College, Columbia SC USA
*"Human Rights U. S. A.; 1948-1966." was published by the Cincinnati Service Center, Board of Missions, Methodist Church.

1968:served as a visiting professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University, Waltham MA USA

1970
*"Dark Testament and Other Poems" was published by Silvermine
*awarded the Alumni Award for Distinguished Post-Graduate Achievement in Law and Public Service, Howard University, Washington DC USA

1971
*awarded the Louis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics and a full professorship of American Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham MA USA
*received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award, Professional Women's Caucus

1972
*received the Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Award

1973
*enshrined in the Hunter College Hall of Fame, Hunter College, New York City NY USA
*"Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family" was re-published by the Reprint Company of Spartanburg SC USA.

1976
*received Master of Divinity, General Theological Seminary, New York City NY USA
*received honorary degree, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH USA

1977:"8 January" – ordained as an Episcopal priest, the first African-American woman to do so, at the National Cathedral, Washington DC USA

1978
*received honorary degree, Radcliffe College, Cambridge MA USA
*"Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family" was re-published by Harper & Row.

1979:received honorary degree, Yale University, New Haven CT USA

1982:Award for Exemplary Christian Ministry, National Institute for Women of Color

1985:"1 July – died of cancer, in Pittsburgh PA USA

1987:Her autobiography, "Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage", was published posthumously by Harper & Row

1988
*awarded Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for "Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage"
*awarded the Christopher Award for "Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage"

1989:"Pauli Murray: the autobiography of a Black activist, feminist, lawyer, priest, and poet.", originally titled "Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage", was [re-] published by the University of Tennessee Press.

1990 :Orange County, NC USA established the Pauli Murray Human Relations Award to commemorate her life's work,

1997:"States' Laws on Race and Color" was re-published by the University of Georgia Press.

1999:"Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family" was re-published by Beacon Press.

2006
*"Pauli Murray & Caroline Ware: forty years of letters in black and white", edited by Anne Firor Scott, was published by the University of North Carolina Press.
*"Pauli Murray: selected sermons and writings", edited with an introduction by Anthony B. Pinn, was published by Orbis Books.

References

Publication information verified courtesy of The Library of Congress of the United States.