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Song in a weary throat : an American pilgrimage / Pauli Murray.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985.
- Murray, Pauli.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Feminists--United States--Biography.
- Feminists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 451 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Eleanor Holmes Norton
- Daughter of Agnes and Will
- Aunt Pauline
- Learning about Race
- Between Two Worlds
- Loss and Change
- Separate and Unequal
- Survival
- Making it Through College
- Among the Unemployed
- Saved by the WPA
- "Members of Your Race are not Admitted ..."
- Jailed in Virginia
- A Sharecropper's Life
- A Sharecropper's Death
- Writing to Law School?
- Getting to Know Mrs. Roosevelt
- Jim Crow in the Nation's Capital
- National Despair, Personal Vindication
- Perfecting our Strategy
- "Don't Get Mad, Get Smart"
- Further Adversities
- Boalt Hall and International House
- Inching Along
- States' Laws and Visits with Mrs. R.
- "Past Associations"
- Neither "My Girl" nor "One of the Boys"
- A Question of Identity
- Teaching in Ghana
- Civil Wrongs and Rights
- The Birth of NOW
- A Stumbling Block to Faith
- My World Turned Upside Down
- Black Politics at Brandeis
- The Death of a Friend
- Full Circle
- Epilogue / Caroline F. Ware.
- Notes:
- Designer: Sidney Feinberg.
- Jacket design © Gloria Adelson/Lulu Graphics.
- Includes index.
- Lillian Smith Book Award, 1987
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy 1 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy 1 has review of this work from Book world (5 April 1987) laid in.
- Banks Collection copy 1 has dust jackets retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985. Song in a weary throat.
- ISBN:
- 0060157046
- 9780060157043
- OCLC:
- 14166403
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