The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice

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Label

The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice

Title remainder

portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice

Statement of responsibility

Patricia Bell-Scott

Creator

• Bell-Scott, Patricia

Author

• Bell-Scott, Patricia

Subject

• African American women civil rights workers -- Biography
• Episcopal Church -- Clergy -- Biography
• Female friendship -- United States
• Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985 -- Friends and associates
• Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography
• Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 -- Friends and associates
• Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
• African American feminists -- Biography
• African American intellectuals -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"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-century, as Pauli became a lawyer, a principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and a cofounder of the National Organization for Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat and first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Two decades in the making, and drawing on letters, journals, diaries, and interviews, this monumental work shows how the relationship between a writer-turned-activist and the first lady not only had a profound effect on each of their lives, but also impacted the struggle for social justice."--Page 4 of cover

Has edition

• Firebrand and the First Lady

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

• 973.917092/2
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E807.1.R48

LC item number

B45 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography