Record #:

5730

Author(s):

Blackburn, Charles, Jr.

Abstract:

Raised by grandparents and an aunt in Durham, Pauli Murray was a civil rights pioneer, leading the first organized sit-in at a Washington, D.C., cafeteria in 1944, and being arrested in Virginia in 1940 for refusing to sit in the back of the bus. Blackburn profiles the life of this woman who was a civil rights lawyer, college professor, college vice president, and Deputy Attorney General of California.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 70 Issue 9, Feb 2003, p25-26, 28-29, il, por

Subject(s):

Murray, Anna Pauline, 1910-1985