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Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray /

"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 poig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenberg, Rosalind, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Coming of age, 1910-1937. A southern childhood
  • Escape to New York
  • Part II. Confronting Jim Crow, 1938-1941. "Members of your race are not admitted"
  • Bus trouble
  • A death sentence leads to law school
  • Part III. Naming Jane Crow, 1941-1946. "I would gladly change my sex"
  • California promise
  • Part IV. Surviving the Cold War, 1946-1961. "Apostles of fear"
  • A person in between
  • "What is Africa to me?"
  • Part V.A chance to lead, 1961-1967. Making sex suspect
  • Invisible woman
  • Toward an NAACP for women
  • Part VI. To teach, to preach, 1967-1977. Professor Murray
  • Triumph and loss
  • The Reverend Dr. Murray
  • Epilogue.