Pauli Murrays Revolutionary Life, Simki Kuznick
Pauli Murrays Revolutionary Life, Simki Kuznick
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Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life

Author: Simki Kuznick

Narrator: Sara Ghebremichael

Unabridged: 5 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/19/2024


Synopsis

Inspiring and timely, Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an African American woman, born in 1910, who blazed through the barriers of race and gender decades before the Civil Rights and Women's Movements. Pauli Murray fearlessly rode freight trains dressed as a boy during the Great Depression and befriended First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt before embarking on a pioneering life of social activism, legal scholarship, and many firsts. In 1944, Pauli graduated first in her class at Howard University; in 1965, she was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in law from Yale University; in 1966, she was a founder of NOW, the first National Organization for Women; and in 1977, Pauli was the first Black woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest. Pauli never faced a barrier she couldn't smash through, and her life as a feminist, civil rights lawyer, poet, author, activist, and priest paved the way for all to live a life of equality and purpose.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on January 06, 2022

Simki Kuznick does an excellent job in telling Pauli Murray's story. Using a variety of authentic sources, Ms. Kuznick tells of Pauli's struggles with her identity, her confrontations with racism and inequality, her battle with physical and mental illnesses, and so much more. Yet Ms. Murray emerges......more

Goodreads review by Tonstant on February 21, 2022

Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life is a biography of the extraordinary human rights activist who struggled against Jim and Jane Crow her entire life. An activist ahead of her time, she was arrested for sitting in the wrong seat of the bus in the 40s and argued that separate but equal was inherently u......more

Goodreads review by April on December 08, 2021

Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life By Simki Kuznick 2022 A LibraryThing Early Reviewers book. An alternate title may be Betwixt and Between: Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life, but this ARC doesn't have the "Betwixt and Between". Betwixt and Between is a biography of Pauli Murray, who was born in 1911 and......more