Resources About Pauli Murray

Archives

  • Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. Howard University, Washington, DC.

  • Pauli Murray Papers, The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

  • Southern Oral History Program, Wilson Library. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

  • Special Collections, Alderman Library. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

Articles

  • Antler, Joyce. “Pauli Murray: The Brandeis Years.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 78–82. 

  • Azaransky, Sarah. “Introduction to Roundtable: Embodying Radical Democracy: Pauli Murray’s Legacies and Resources for a Common Freedom Struggle.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 29, no. 1, 2013, pp. 141–42. 

  • Azaransky, Sarah. “Jane Crow: Pauli Murray’s Intersections and Antidiscrimination Law.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 29, no. 1, 2013, pp. 155–60. 

  • Bell-Scott, Patricia. “‘To Write Like Never Before’: Pauli Murray’s Enduring Yearning.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 58–61. 

  • Brown, Flora Bryant. “NAACP Sponsored Sit-Ins by Howard University Students in Washington, D.C., 1943-1944.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 84, no. 4,  2000, pp. 274-286.

  • Bucher, Christina G. “Pauli Murray: A Case for the Poetry.” North Carolina Literary Review, vol. 13, 2004, pp. 59–73.

  • Dorrien, Gary. “Race, Gender, Exclusion, and Divine Discontent: Pauli Murray and the Intersections of Liberation and Reconciliation.” CrossCurrents, vol. 67, no. 2, University of North Carolina Press, 2017, pp. 373–99.

  • Drury, Doreen M. “Boy-Girl, Imp, Priest: Pauli Murray and the Limits of Identity.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 29, no. 1, [Indiana University Press, FSR, Inc], 2013, pp. 142–47.

  • Drury, Doreen M. “Love, Ambition, and ‘Invisible Footnotes’ in the Life and Writing of Pauli Murray.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 11, no. 3, 2009, pp. 295–309. 

  • Elin Fisher, Simon D. “Challenging Dissemblance in Pauli Murray Historiography, Sketching a History of the Trans New Negro.” The Journal of African American History, vol. 104, no. 2, 2019, pp. 176–200. 

  • Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. “Admitting Pauli Murray.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 62–67. 

  • Hartmann, Susan M. “Pauli Murray and the ‘Juncture of Women’s Liberation and Black Liberation.’” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 74–77.

  • Humez, Jean M. “Pauli Murray’s Histories of Loyalty and Revolt.” Black American Literature Forum, vol. 24, no. 2, 1990, pp. 315-55.

  • Keaveney, Hiroki Kimiko. “Christian, Queer and Interracial: The Story of Pauli Murray and Irene Barlow.” 2016. San Francisco State University, MA Thesis. 

  • Peppard, Christiana Z. “Poetry, Ethics, and the Legacy of Pauli Murray.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, vol. 30, no.1, 2010, pp. 21-43.

  • Peppard, Christiana Z. “Democracy, the Verb: Pauli Murray’s Poetry as a Resource for Ongoing Freedom Struggles.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 29, no.1, 2013, pp. 148-155.

  • Pinn, Anthony B. “Pauli Murray’s Triadic Strategy of Engagement.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 29, no.1, 2013, 160-164.

  • Rosenberg, Rosalind. “The Conjunction of Race and Gender.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 68-73.

  • Rupp, Leila J., and Verta Taylor. “Pauli Murray: The Unasked Question.” Journal of Women’s History, vol 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 83-87.

  • Simmons-Thorne, Naomi. “Pauli Murray and the Pronominal Problem: a De-essentialist Trans Historiography.” Activist History Review, May 2019. 

  • Smith, Kim. “Book of Harriet: The Disambiguation of Five North Carolinian Siblings 1840-1941.” 2016. Duke University, MA Thesis.

  • Suk, Julie C. “A DANGEROUS IMBALANCE: PAULI MURRAY’S EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AND THE PATH TO EQUAL POWER.” Virginia Law Review, vol. 107, 2021, pp. 3-26.

  • Ware, Susan. “Pauli Murray’s Notable Connections.” Journal of Women’s History, vol 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 54-57.

Books

  • Azaransky, Sarah. The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith. New York, Oxford University Press, 2011.

  • Bell-Scott, Patricia. The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice. Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

  • Jones, Martha. Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. Basic Books, 2020.

  • Mayeri, Serena. Reasoning From Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution. Harvard University Press, 2011.

  • O’Dell, Darlene. Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray. University Press of Virginia, 2001.

  • Pinn, Anthony B., ed. Pauli Murray: Selected Sermons and Writings. Orbis Books, 2006.

  • Rosenberg, Rosalind. Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. New York, Oxford University Press, 2017.

  • Saxby, Troy. Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life. University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

  • Stevens-Holsey, Rosita, and Terry Catasús Jennings. Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist. Yellow Jacket, 2022.

  • Scott, Anne Firor, ed. Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White. University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

  • Sherman, Richard B. The Case of Odell Waller and Virginia Justice, 1940-1942. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Chapters

  • Caldbeck, Elaine. “The Poetry of Pauli Murray, African American Civil Rights Lawyer and Priest.” Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion: Views from the Other Side, edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether, Fortress Press, 2002, pp. 45–56.

  • Cooper, Brittney C. “Queering Jane Crow: Pauli Murray’s Quest for an Unhyphenated Identity.” Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women. University of Illinois Press, 2017. 

  • Gilmore, Glenda. “Imagining Integration.” Defying Dixie: The radical roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950. W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.

  • Mack, Kenneth. “The Trials of Pauli Murray.” Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer. Harvard University Press, 2012.

  • Olson, Lynn. “Far More Terrible for Women.” Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830-1970. New York: Scribner, 2001.

  • Taylor, Leila J. Rupp and Verta. “Lesbian Existence and the Women’s Movement: Researching the ‘Lavender Herring’.” Feminism and Social Change: Bridging Theory and Practice, edited by Heidi Gottfried, University of Illinois Press, 1996, pp. 143-159.

Podcasts

Visit the Pauli Murray Center

The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice is located at 906 Carroll St., Durham, NC 27701.

We are pleased to offer many opportunities for visitors to engage with this sacred space through events, public tours, and community gathers. We look forward to welcoming you to this historic place.

Our mailing address is P.O. Box 541, Durham, NC 27702.