Pauli Murray

The Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights advocate, feminist, lawyer, writer, poet, teacher, and ordained priest.

Pauli Murray was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1910, to William H. and Agnes Georgiana (Fitzgerald) Murray. When Pauli Murray was three years old, her mother died, and she went to live with her aunt and maternal grandparents, the Fitzgeralds, in Durham, North Carolina.

A contemporary and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, [Goodwin, Doris Kearns, "No Ordinary Time," Simon and Schuster, 1994, pg 353 ] She was a professor of American studies at Brandeis University from 1968 to 1973. She was the author of the 1950 book "States' Laws on Race and Color," which catalogued state statutes discriminating against African Americans, Native Americans, Asians and other groups.

Murray was one of the founders of the the "Women's Rights Law Reporter", the first legal periodical to focus exclusively on women's rights.

She testified on discrimination against women before the 91st Congress of the United States. [ [http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6472/ George Mason University - testified] ] She was the first African-American woman Episcopal priest and a co-founder of NOW, the National Organization for Women.

Pauli Murray died of cancer on July 1, 1985 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her autobiography "Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage" was published posthumously in 1987.

In 1990, the Pauli Murray Human Relations Award was established in her honor to commemorate her life work.

Bibliography

*Murray, Pauli, (June, 1989). "The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest and Poet (Paperback)," University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 0-87049-596-8.
*Murray, Pauli (Davison Douglas ed., 2d ed. 1997). "States' Law on Race and Color," University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820318837
*Murray, Pauli, (1956). " Proud Shoes," Harper & Brothers, New York. ISBN 0-8070-7209-5.
*Murray, Pauli, (1987). "Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage", Harper & Row, New York City. ISBN 0-06-015704-6.

ee also

*Pauli Murray/Timeline
*National Organization for Women

External links

* [http://www.ncwriters.org/services/lhof/inductees/pmurray.htm Biography]
* [http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/murray.html Pauli Murray]
* [http://www.co.orange.nc.us/hrr/pmurray.asp The Pauli Murray Award]
* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0044/menu.html Oral History Interview with Pauli Murray] from [http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp Oral Histories of the American South]

[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00067 Pauli Murray Papers.] [http://radcliffe.edu/schles Schlesinger Library,] Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

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