Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware (eBook)

Forty Years of Letters in Black and White

Anne Firor Scott (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009
216 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7673-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nations leading historians. A friendship and a correspondence began, lasting until Murrays death in 1985. Ware, a Boston Brahmin born in 1899, was a scholar, a leading consumer advocate, and a political activist. Murray, born in 1910 and raised in North Carolina, with few resources except her intelligence and determination, graduated from college at 16 and made her way to law school, where she organized student sit-ins to protest segregation. She pulled her friend Ware into this early civil rights activism. Their forty-year correspondence ranged widely over issues of race, politics, international affairs, and for a difficult period in the 1950s McCarthyism.In time, Murray became a labor lawyer, a university professor, and the first black woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest. Ware continued her work as a social historian and consumer advocate while pursuing an international career as a community development specialist. Their letters, products of high intelligence and a gift for writing, offer revealing portraits of their authors as well as the workings of an unusual female friendship. They also provide a wonderful channel into the social and political thought of the times, particularly regarding civil rights and womens rights.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and American Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and American Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 9 illus., notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) • Brown v. Board of Education • Caroline Ware • Civil Rights Movement • cross-class friendship • Eleanor Roosevelt • Fair Employment Practices • Female Intellectuals • Gardiner Means • howard university • interracial friendship • Labor Movement • literary friendship • Maida Springer • McCarthyism • National Organization for Women (NOW) • ordination of women • Pauli Murray • Proud Shoes • Radcliffe Graduate Medal • Radcliffe Graduate Medal / • Second-Wave Feminism • Thurgood Marshall • UNESCO History of Mankind • University of North Carolina • women historians
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-7673-9 / 0807876739
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-7673-2 / 9780807876732