THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray
1910 – 1985
“She Saw an Injustice and She Stepped In.” – Ms. Rosita Stevens-Holsey, Pauli Murray’s Niece
Lawyer. Poet. Author. Educator. Labor and Civil Rights Activist. Founder of the Congress of Racial Equality. Co-Founder of NOW. First woman and African American to earn a Doctorate of Juridical Science from Yale Law School. California’s first black Deputy Attorney General. First African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest.
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Photo 1. Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline Murray, 1978, courtesy of Schlesinger Library. Photo 2. Anna Pauline Murray.
Interview Published by 3 Roads Communications
More About Pauli:
- The Pauli Murray Project
- Pauli Murray: The Episcopal Saint Who Fought Jim and Jane Crow, by Denise Oliver Velez, Daily Kos, January 8, 2017
- Pauli Murray House / National Trust For Historic Preservation
- Rediscovering Pauli Murray/ Radcliff Institute
- NOW Salutes Pauli Murray
- Finding Pauli Murray NOW
- Howard University School of Law Pauli Murray Conference – Part 1 ; Part 2
- Mass Humanities: The Price of Survival
- Poetry Foundation
- Papers
- Why Pauli Murray, Why Now?
- Southern Oral History Project 1976 interview
- University of Richmond BUNK
- Books by and about Pauli Murray
- Wikipedia
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 330