Useful Links
The Black Queer Feminist Civil Rights Lawyer Priest who co-founded NOW, but that History Nearly Forgot
https://now.org/about/history/finding-pauli-murray/
Black, queer, feminist, erased from history: Meet the most important legal scholar you've likely never heard of
https://www.salon.com/2015/02/18/black_queer_feminist_erased_from_history_meet_the_most_important_legal_scholar_youve_likely_never_heard_of/
documentary films : ‘How is Pauli Murray not a household name?’ The extraordinary life of the US’s most radical activist
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/17/how-is-pauli-murray-not-a-household-name-the-extraordinary-life-of-the-uss-most-radical-activist
Discusses Pauli Murray’s edited collection titled States’ Laws on Race and Color
https://onthebooks.lib.unc.edu/laws/the-laws-in-context/
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family (1956)
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.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807072095?tag=bpress-20
Primary Sources
Jim crow Bus dispute leads to girls arrest (The Carolina Times April 6, 1940)
https://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn83045120/1940-04-06/ed-1/seq-1/ Pauli Murray, “A Female Civil Rights Organizer Condemns "Jane Crow",” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed June 28, 2022, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1347. In this speech (later distributed in a pamphlet) to the National Council of Negro Women, Murray articulated the dual burdens of racism and sexism black women faced, and called for white and black women to work together to end their shared problems. Pauli Murray, “The Negro Woman in the Quest for Equality,” November 1963, excerpts. https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/7/11428/files/2017/03/Murray-The-Negro-Woman-2clsq0g.pdf |