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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press
[2017]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47409885*spi |
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.
