Sadly, these experiences are also the likely cause of Murray’s erasure from so much of history. “Murray’s gender-nonconforming body and experiences makes their contributions to the work of freedom and liberation of Black people that much more critical. Handsomely republished with a new introduction, Murray’s remarkable memoir takes its rightful place among the great civil rights autobiographies of the twentieth century. As the first African American woman to receive a doctorate of law at Yale, her name graces one of the university's new colleges. Now Murray is finally getting long-deserved recognition. It also connected her with such progressive leaders as Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Betty Friedan, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Word Count: 604 The primary character in Pauli Murray’s. Board of Education, and the Supreme Court’s recognition that the equal protection clause applies to women. Song in a Weary Throat by Pauli Murray Start Free Trial Characters PDF Cite Share Last Updated on August 6, 2019, by eNotes Editorial. Her legal brilliance was pivotal to the overturning of Plessy v. Poet, memoirist, labor organizer, and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray helped transform the law of the land.Īrrested 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.
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