The Firebrand and the First Lady

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The Firebrand and the First Lady
The Firebrand and the First Lady
Author : Patricia Bell-Scott
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Publisher : Vintage
Language : English
Release Date : 24 January 2017
ISBN : 9780679767299
Pages : 482 pages
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • The riveting history of how Pauli Murray—a brilliant writer-turned-activist—and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America. “A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt.” —Essence In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old Pauli Murray wrote a letter to the President and First Lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, protesting racial segregation in the South. Eleanor wrote back. So began a friendship that would last for a quarter of a century, as Pauli became a lawyer, principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a co-founder of the National Organization of Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat and first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

The Firebrand and the First Lady

The Firebrand and the First Lady by Patricia Bell-Scott

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