Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
מארי, פולי, 1910-1985
Name (Latin)
Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985
Other forms of name
Murray, Anna Pauline, 1910-1985
Murray, Pauli, 1910-
Date of birth
1910-11-20
Date of death
1985-07-01
Place of birth
Baltimore (Md.)
Place of death
Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Authors
Clergy
Lawyers
African American women lawyers
African American women clergy
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Fuller form of name
Anna Pauline
Biographical or Historical Data
LL.B., LL.M.
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 9876288
Wikidata: Q7154879
Library of congress: n 50034273
Sources of Information
  • Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed March 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Murray, Pauli; Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray; autobiographer / memoirist, civil rights activist, episcopalian clergyperson, lawyer; born 20 November 1910 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States; graduated from Hunter College in New York City (1933); graduated from Howard Law School in Washington, D.C. (1944); graduate work at the law school at the University of California at Berkeley; a doctoral program at Yale Law School (1965); opened her own practice and became involved in local politics; compiled a volume titled States' Laws on Race and Color (1951); worked with the prestigious New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; taught at the Ghana School of Law in Accra (1960); cofounded of the National Organization for Women; became the first woman of color ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church; her prize-winning autobiography Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage (1987), was published posthumously; died 01 July 1985 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States)
  • The collection includes diaries, 1864 and 1867-1871, and a sketchbook of Robert G. Fitzgerald (1840-1919); copies of his pension record and marriage certificate and of the manumission certificate of Thomas Fitzgerald (father of Robert G.); two letters; and articles about members of the Fitzgerald family, including Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Pauli Murray ( (Finding aid for Fitzgerald family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, Apr. 9, 2020) )
  • Information from 678 field, converted April 4, 2015(LL.B., LL.M.)
  • To speak a defiant word, c2023:t.p. (Pauli Murray)
  • Author's States' laws on race and color ... 1950.
  • NUCMC data from Franklin D. Roosevelt Libr. for Eleanor Roosevelt oral history transcripts, 1977-1980(Pauli Murray; lawyer, educator, author, Episcopal Priest; friend of Eleanor Roosevelt)
  • O'Dell, D. Sites of southern memory, 2001:CIP galley (b. 1910; d. 1985)
  • Literature resource center WWW site, Apr. 1, 2011((Anna) Pauli(ne) Murray; b. Nov. 20, 1910, Baltimore, Md., d. July 1, 1985, Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for Her Interview, 1968 Aug. 15 and 17(MURRAY, Pauli (1910-1985); RJB 290; African American lawyer, educator, author, and civil rights activist)
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