A black woman lawyer, civil-rights activist, and Episcopal priest comes to terms with her origins as she tells of the miscegenation, slavery, and struggles that are integral parts of her family's past

Proud Shoes

Biographies & Memoirs

Murray, Pauli

Community & Culture

Harper&Row

The author recounts her childhood, education, career as a lawyer and poet, and involvement in the Civil Rights and Women's movements

Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage

Harpercollins

First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.

A black woman lawyer, civil-rights activist, and Episcopal priest comes to terms with her origins as she tells of the miscegenation, slavery, and struggles that are integral parts of her family's past

Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family

Twenty-five years of writings by the religious thinker and activist Pauli Murray\nThe religious thought and activism that shaped the late twentieth century is typically described in terms of Black men from the major Black denominations, a depiction that fails to account for the voices of those who not only challenged racism but also forced a confrontation with class and gender. Of these overlooked voices, none is more important than that of Pauli Murray (1910–1985), the nonbinary Black lawyer, activist, poet, and Episcopal priest who influenced such icons as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall.\nAnthony B. Pinn has collected Murray’s most important sermons, lectures, and speeches from 1960 through 1985, showcasing her religious thought and activism as well as her original and compassionate literary voice. In highlighting major themes in Murray’s writing—including the strength and rights of women, faithfulness, religious community, and suffering—Pinn’s collection reveals the evolution in Murray’s religious ideas and her sense of ministry, unpacking her role in a tumultuous period of American history, as well as her thriving legacy.

To Speak a Defiant Word: Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation

History

World

Yale University Press

Proud Shoes The Story Of An American Family

Proud Shoes the Story of an American Family

Americas

Franklin Classics

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First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.

Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family (Black Women Writers Series)

Beacon Press

First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW,&nbsp;Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840,&nbsp;Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.

Originally published in 1956, Pauli Murray tells the story of her grandparents, delving into the realities of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the pre-Civil War/Reconstruction era in the South."A significant contribution to our understanding of the black experience in America. . . . Fascinating."-- Publishers Weekly

Peter Smith Pub Inc

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Proud Shoes

Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage

Proud Shoes

Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family

To Speak a Defiant Word: Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation

Proud Shoes The Story Of An American Family

Proud Shoes The Story Of An American Family

Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family (Black Women Writers Series)

Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family

Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family