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Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985

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Personal name headingMurray, Pauli, 1910-1985
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Variant(s)Murray, Anna Pauline, 1910-1985
See alsoFamily: Fitzgerald (Family : Fitzgerald, Robert G. (Robert George), 1840-1919)
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Other standard no.0000000108686594
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1910-11-20
Death date1985-07-01
Place of birthBaltimore (Md.)
Place of deathPittsburgh (Pa.)
AffiliationHunter College Howard University. School of Law University of California, Berkeley Yale Law School Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Ghana School of Law National Organization for Women
Episcopal Church
Profession or occupationClergy Authors Lawyers
Found inAuthor's States' laws on race and color ... 1950.
NUCMC data from Franklin D. Roosevelt Libr. for Eleanor Roosevelt oral history transcripts, 1977-1980 (Pauli Murray; lawyer, educator, author, Episcopal Priest; friend of Eleanor Roosevelt)
O'Dell, D. Sites of southern memory, 2001: CIP galley (b. 1910; d. 1985)
Literature resource center WWW site, Apr. 1, 2011 ((Anna) Pauli(ne) Murray; b. Nov. 20, 1910, Baltimore, Md., d. July 1, 1985, Pittsburgh, Pa.)
NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for Her Interview, 1968 Aug. 15 and 17 (MURRAY, Pauli (1910-1985); RJB 290; African American lawyer, educator, author, and civil rights activist)
Information from 678 field, converted April 4, 2015 (LL.B., LL.M.)
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed March 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Murray, Pauli; Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray; autobiographer / memoirist, civil rights activist, episcopalian clergyperson, lawyer; born 20 November 1910 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States; graduated from Hunter College in New York City (1933); graduated from Howard Law School in Washington, D.C. (1944); graduate work at the law school at the University of California at Berkeley; a doctoral program at Yale Law School (1965); opened her own practice and became involved in local politics; compiled a volume titled States' Laws on Race and Color (1951); worked with the prestigious New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; taught at the Ghana School of Law in Accra (1960); cofounded of the National Organization for Women; became the first woman of color ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church; her prize-winning autobiography Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage (1987), was published posthumously; died 01 July 1985 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States)
Finding aid for Fitzgerald family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, Apr. 9, 2020 (The collection includes diaries, 1864 and 1867-1871, and a sketchbook of Robert G. Fitzgerald (1840-1919); copies of his pension record and marriage certificate and of the manumission certificate of Thomas Fitzgerald (father of Robert G.); two letters; and articles about members of the Fitzgerald family, including Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Pauli Murray)
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To speak a defiant word, c2023: t.p. (Pauli Murray)
Associated languageeng