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1 online resource (1 audio file (18hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Janina Edwards. |
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In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of Pauli Murray, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law. In the 1950s, her legal scholarship helped Thurgood Marshall challenge segregation head-on in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. When appointed by Eleanor Roosevelt to the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1962, she advanced the idea of Jane Crow, arguing that the same reasons used to condemn race discrimination could be used to battle gender discrimination. In 1965, she became the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and the following year persuaded Betty Friedan to found an NAACP for women, which became NOW. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985.
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Episcopal Church -- Clergy -- Biography.
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African American intellectuals -- Biography.
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African American women poets -- Biography.
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African American women lawyers -- Biography.
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African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
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African American women clergy -- Biography.
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African American feminists -- Biography.
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Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Edwards, Janina.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781705227411 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1705227414 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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MWT13263259 |
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