Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray /

"Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rosenberg, Rosalind, 1946- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Murray, Pauli, > 1910-1985. Episcopal Church > Clergy > Biography. Episcopal Church. 1900-1999 African American intellectuals > Biography. African American poets > Biography. African American lawyers > Biography. African American civil rights workers > Biography. African American feminists > Biography. Social reformers > United States > Biography. Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage. African American civil rights workers. African American feminists. African American intellectuals. African American lawyers. African American poets. Civil rights movements. Clergy. Social reformers. United States. Biographies. Biography. History.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Coming of age, 1910-1937
A Southern childhood
Escape to New York
Part II: Confronting Jim Crow, 1938-1941
"Members of your race are not admitted"
Bus trouble
A death sentence leads to law school
Part III: Naming Jane Crow, 1941-1946
"I would gladly change my sex"
California promise, 1944-1946
Part IV: Surviving the Cold War, 1946-1961
"Apostles of fear"
A person in between
"What is Africa to me?"
Part V: A chance to lead, 1961-1967
Making sex suspect
Invisible woman
Toward an NAACP for women
Part VI: To teach, to preach, 1967-1977
Professor Murray
Triumph and loss
The Reverend Dr. Murray
Epilogue.