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The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice Cover Image Book

The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice

Portrait of a friendship, Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice (portion title)
Bell-Scott, Patricia (author.).

Summary: "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-century, as Pauli became a lawyer, a principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and a cofounder of the National Organization for Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat and first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Two decades in the making, and drawing on letters, journals, diaries, and interviews, this monumental work shows how the relationship between a writer-turned-activist and the first lady not only had a profound effect on each of their lives, but also impacted the struggle for social justice"--Page 4 of cover.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780679446521
  • ISBN: 0679446524
  • ISBN: 9780679767299
  • ISBN: 0679767290
  • Physical Description: print
    xix, 454 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-434) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prelude: Camp Tera -- Taking aim at the White House -- Bumping up against the law, 1940-42 -- Making friends with the First Lady, 1942-44 -- Standing up to life's challenges, 1944-45 -- Fashioning new lives, 1945-52 -- Drawing closer as friends, 1952-55 -- Fighting for a just world, 1956-59 -- Lighting the path for new activists, 1959-62 -- Speaking truth to the end, 1963-85.

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Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884-1962 Friends and associates
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African American women civil rights workers Biography
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Genre:
Biographies.

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