Pauli Murray : the autobiography of a Black activist, feminist, lawyer, priest, and poet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985.

Standardized Title:

Song in a weary throat

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.

Physical Description:

xii, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Autobiography of a Black activist, feminist, lawyer, priest, and poet.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Contents:

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 or 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.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Song in a weary throat. New York : Harper & Row, c1987.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

ISBN:

0870495968

9780870495960

OCLC:

18291245