Comments on: Finding Pauli Murray

By: This Month’s MILL

This Month’s MILL — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:52:31 +0000

[...] Finding Pauli Murray; • Written in Stone — reflections on black history • Hidden Voices’ Because [...]

By: Ethan Clauset

Ethan Clauset — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:22:56 +0000

Pauli Murray is a major figure in an excellent new book by Glenda Gilmore, Defying Dixie. Gilmore makes the case that another reason the NAACP declined to take up her case in 1938 was her sexuality. Thurgood Marshall told her she was “too maverick” and she had once been briefly hospitalized in NYC after quarrel with a female lover. I’m a little embarrassed that we neglected this important detail, but our main source for this article was Murray’s own memoir, which I don’t believe makes any mention of this.

By: This Month’s MILL

This Month’s MILL — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:25:47 +0000

[...] MILL, our arts, music and literature, publication is out this week. Featured stories include: • Finding Pauli Murray; • Written in Stone — reflections on black history • Hidden Voices’ Because [...]

By: Anne Firor Scott

Anne Firor Scott — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:16:24 +0000

Could I draw your attention to the book Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of letters in black and white, which I edited and which was published by UNC in Oct. 2006. I trust it is in the Chapel Hill Public Library, but if not I will happily lend you a copy. Pauli’s own books are fine as far as they go, but there are many things she discussed in her correspondence with Ware that do not appear in the volumes of her autobiography.(Incidentally, Song in a Weary Throat and the Autobiography are the same book under two different titles) I’m glad to see your excellent article. Anne Scott

By: David Beck

David Beck — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:06:01 +0000

Really nice article on the amazing Pauli Murray. Thnx!

By: BrianR

BrianR — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:17:45 +0000

Excellent piece Ethan. Thank you for sharing this. I know it is only one of the hidden stories of Chapel Hill and North Carolina.