Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life
Author | : Simki Kuznick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 1578690765 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781578690763 |
Rating | : 4/5 (763 Downloads) |
Download or read book Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life written by Simki Kuznick and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life is the story of a feisty African-American woman born in 1910 who blazed through the barriers of race and gender years before the Civil Rights and Women's Movements. The granddaughter of a Union Army soldier and a woman whose enslaved mother was raped by her master, Pauli fearlessly rode freight trains dressed as a boy during the Depression, became a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, obtained law degrees from Howard and Yale universities before becoming one of the first women ordained as an Episcopal priest.