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The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice - Paperback

by Patricia Bell-Scott
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Availability:In StockContributor:Patricia Bell-ScottPublish date:2017-01-24Pages:480
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679767299ISBN-10:679767290UPC:9780679767299Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Political, Women, Social ActivistsSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SC6NP99YHW
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE - The riveting history of how Pauli Murray--a brilliant writer-turned-activist--and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America.

"A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt." --Essence

In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old Pauli Murray wrote a letter to the President and First Lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, protesting racial segregation in the South. Eleanor wrote back. So began a friendship that would last for a quarter of a century, as Pauli became a lawyer, principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a co-founder of the National Organization of Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat and first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679767299ISBN-10:679767290UPC:9780679767299Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Political, Women, Social ActivistsSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SC6NP99YHW

PATRICIA BELL-SCOTT is professor emerita of women's studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia. Her previous books include Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women, Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives, and Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers & Daughters, which won the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, Charles V. Underwood Jr.


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