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  • Song in a Weary Throat

    Memoir of an American Pilgrimage

    de Pauli Murray ...
    THE STORY BEHIND THE DOCUMENTARY MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAYA prophetic memoir by the activist who “articulated the intellectual foundations” (The New Yorker) of the civil rights and women’s rights movements.First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray’s Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award among other ... Leer más

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  • Dark Testament

    and Other Poems

    de Pauli Murray ...
    With the cadences of Martin Luther King Jr. and the lyricism of Langston Hughes, the great civil rights activist Pauli Murray’s sole book of poems finally returns to print.There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in The New Yorker, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her name. Murray has been ... Leer más

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  • To Speak a Defiant Word

    Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation

    de Pauli Murray ...
    Twenty-five years of writings by the religious thinker and activist Pauli MurrayThe religious thought and activism that shaped the late twentieth century is typically described in terms of Black men from the major Black denominations, a depiction that fails to account for the voices of those who not only challenged racism but also forced a confrontation with class and gender. Of these overlooked ... Leer más

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  • Proud Shoes

    The Story of an American Family

    de Pauli Murray ...
    First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a ... Leer más

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    Song in a Weary Throat

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    de Pauli Murray ...
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    Poet, memoirist, labor organizer, and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray helped transform the law of the land. Arrested 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. Her legal brilliance was pivotal to the overturning of Plessy v. Ferguson, the success of Brown v. Board of ... Leer más

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  • 1861

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    A gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom.An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer’s wife, an idealistic ... Leer más

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  • Lincoln

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  • Abraham Lincoln

    The Prairie Years

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  • Cloudsplitter

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