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Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements.

A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law. In the 1950s, her legal scholarship helped Thurgood Marshall challenge segregation head-on in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.

When appointed by Eleanor Roosevelt to the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1962, she advanced the idea of Jane Crow, arguing that the same reasons used to condemn race discrimination could be used to battle gender discrimination. In 1965, she became the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and the following year persuaded Betty Friedan to found an NAACP for women, which became NOW. In the early 1970s, Murray provided Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the argument Ginsburg used to persuade the Supreme Court that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution protects not only blacks but also women - and potentially other minority groups - from discrimination. By that time, Murray was a tenured history professor at Brandeis, a position she left to become the first black woman ordained a priest by the Episcopal Church in 1976.

Murray accomplished all this while struggling with issues of identity. She believed from childhood she was male and tried unsuccessfully to persuade doctors to give her testosterone. While she would today be identified as transgender, during her lifetime no social movement existed to support this identity. She ultimately used her private feelings of being "in-between" to publicly contend that identities are not fixed, an idea that has powered campaigns for equal rights in the United States for the past half-century.

Jane Crow The Life of Pauli Murray eBook Rosalind Rosenberg

I have read thousand of books in my life time and this is one of the BEST I've every read! It's an inspirational story of a woman born before her time who achieved dramatic things in her life time given the disadvantages she was born with. Even being left-handed was a disadvantage for her!
I was first introduced to Pauli when I read Blanche Weisen Cook's brilliant trilogy of Eleanor Roosevelt and and when I read Susan Quinn's "Eleanor and Hick". If you relish inspirational stories about women who overcome overwhelming odds, this book is for you. And, it doesn't hurt that it's extremely well written.


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Jane Crow The Life of Pauli Murray eBook Rosalind Rosenberg Reviews

I really enjoyed Rosenberg's thorough details about Pauli Murray from beginning to end. Having read Proud Shoes and Songs in a Weary Throat, I found Jane Crow to be a wonderful added piece to broaden the knowledge of such an amazing woman.
I became aware of Ms Murray when reading an article that included her name and some of her accomplishments. I immediately bought this book and her autobigraphy "Proud Shoes". What an amazing woman. This book should be mandatory reading for all women's studies students.
I had never heard of Pauli Murray until reading this book. He life intersects with many of early movements in civil rights. There is gender neutrality, economic challenges and s much more. A must read for women.
I admire Pauli Murray. She paved the way for other Social Justice litigators and Civil Rights activists to achieve equality in this country w/ her 14th amendment strategy. Yet she was not applauded or appreciated during her time. It saddens me that she did not live to see the recognition, admiration and respect she finally deserves by the 21st century civil rights lawyers, grassroots activists, political science students, historians, etc.
I wish I had known her during her lifetime. To me she's Epic.
This thoroughly researched, impeccably crafted important biography of the amazing Pauli Murray kept me on the edge of my seat. Why did I not know about this poet, civil rights activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest? The history so carefully explained here helped me understand my mother's political activism.
A Woman for all
This is a book that needs to be read on many levels and from many directions. It is Civil Rights, gender rights, spirituality, religious diversity, identity. A testament of our past, present and future. Pauli Murray represents all of this and more. She is one of those individuals that floats on the periphery of history appearing here and there in books about and by others on the above subjects. You know the person is important by the number of times and places they appear, but you don't get to know much about them. Rosenberg's biography changes all that for Pauli Murray. Jane Crow is a well done if overly sentimental work on her subject. While she does discuss Murray's conflicts about gender identity, she does not give them the fullness they may deserve in helping us know Murray as a complete person. These conflicts drove her to be who she became as much as her intellect. Still this is a book on a person that has been long overdue for such a biography. It is not a book just for women, African Americans, spiritual enthusiasts, historians, it is for all of us.
Pauli Murray is an inspiring and disappointing figure. She was a brave, persevering person in the first half of her life, punctuated by the decompensations; in the second half, she was unable to find a conclusive position between careerism and conscience, and tried equivocal, milquetoast stances that (for appropriately different reasons) didn't satisfy her, or the world. Rosenberg's book reads more as a doctoral thesis than a trade book, and in a tone that increasingly indicates that she is aware her subject's life was like the light that failed. I think roughly the same of Gerald Gunther's "Learned Hand" scholarly portrayals of wounded souls who sought to insinuate their brilliance into the delivery of true justice... where most jurisprudence is mere gamesmanship. I spent a vacation in Newfoundland, reading it while looking at and walking in naive beauty, mourning over Murray's heroic aspirations and niggling shortcomings.
I have read thousand of books in my life time and this is one of the BEST I've every read! It's an inspirational story of a woman born before her time who achieved dramatic things in her life time given the disadvantages she was born with. Even being left-handed was a disadvantage for her!
I was first introduced to Pauli when I read Blanche Weisen Cook's brilliant trilogy of Eleanor Roosevelt and and when I read Susan Quinn's "Eleanor and Hick". If you relish inspirational stories about women who overcome overwhelming odds, this book is for you. And, it doesn't hurt that it's extremely well written.