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.
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