Happy EARTHday, Sister Pauli🪅🎊🎉 Pauli would be 112 years old. RIP.




Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 20, 1910. Her mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1914. Her father, a teacher in the Baltimore public school system, suffered from depression and was eventually confined to a state mental hospital where he was murdered by a white guard in 1923.

ABOUT PAULI and claire…i learned about pauli murray several years ago thru membership in the Rev. Dr. Robert E. DuBose, Jr. Chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians. thank you, my UBE sisters and brothers! i [we!] should have been taught about pauli sixty yrs ago. so, i’ve taught myself. am teachING myself. what follows is an offering of places i’ve visited searching for pauli murray. hope u have fun on my Journey to inherently arbitrary gender. amein


AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Proud Shoes: The Story of An American Family (1956)

Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage (1987)

Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet (1989




POETRY See: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/pauli-murray


Dark Testament: and Other Poems (1970)




MOVIE

My Name is Pauli Murray


Reviews

Pauli Murray—Priest, Lawyer, Organizer—Refused to Be Diminutive | Sojourners https://sojo.net/articles/pauli-murray-priest-lawyer-organizer-refused-be-diminutive


My Name Is Pauli Murray’ is a revelatory portrait of the most pioneering legal activist you never heard of https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/my-name-is-pauli-murray-movie-review/2021/09/14/50b29024-118f-11ec-9cb6-bf9351a25799_story.html




YOU TUBE VIDEOES

https://youtu.be/Rxt0tbsWQfU

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CURATED READING LIST

https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahrosenbaum/2020/06/26/pauli-murray-lgbtq-rights-civil-rights-act-title-vii/

The Many Lives of Pauli Murray https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-many-lives-of-pauli-murray/amp


Who Is Pauli Murray?
https://www.paulimurraycenter.com/who-is-pauli


Pauli Murray’s Indelible Mark on the Fight for Equal Rights | American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/issues/womens-rights/pauli-murrays-indelible-mark-fight-equal-rights


Break This Down: Professor Rosalind Rosenberg on Pauli Murray | Barnard College https://barnard.edu/news/break-down-q-professor-rosalind-rosenberg-pauli-murray


Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White a book by Anne Firor Scott https://bookshop.org/books/pauli-murray-and-caroline-ware-forty-years-of-letters-in-black-and-white/9780807859285


The Pioneering Pauli Murray: Lawyer, Activist, Scholar and Priest https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/pioneering-pauli-murray-lawyer-activist-scholar-and-priest


PAULI MURRAY FAMILY HOME https://www.nps.gov/places/pauli-murray-family-home.htm


PAULI MURRAY CENTER FOR HISTORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE https://www.paulimurraycenter.com/


PAULI MURRAY: FIGHTING JANE CROW

Article. By Paula Giddings, The Nation, May 23, 1987. Review of Pauli Murray’s autobiography, Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage. https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/pauli-murray-fighting-jane-crow/

PAULI MURRAY, ARCHITECT OF HISTORY https://thegavoice.com/community/pauli-murray-architect-of-history/


Finding Pauli Murray:The Black Queer Feminist Civil Rights Lawyer Priest who co-founded NOW, but that History Nearly Forgot
October 24, 2016
https://now.org/about/history/finding-pauli-murray/


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


“On the Basis of Sex” Explores Pauli Murray’s Influence on RBG https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/on-the-basis-of-sex-pauli-murray


The little-known black activist who captured a first lady’s attention https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-little-known-black-activist-who-captured-a-first-ladys-attention/2016/03/10/fd995f12-d738-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html


Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now Murray’s moment has finally come. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/pauli-murray-documentary/2021/09/09/5618da86-0ce0-11ec-9781-07796ffb56fe_story.html


FAITH AND TRUE GRIT THE LIFE OF PAULI MURRAY https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1987/04/05/faith-and-true-grit-the-life-of-pauli-murray/d09e326c-c19c-4256-85b1-d10c4f4e45c8/


PAULI MURRAY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_Murray


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sun nov 20 2022 REmbr…G is, as G can only BE. GOOD

If I didn’t define myself, I’d be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive. audre lorde

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