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- catalog abstract "The collection consists of correspondence; clippings, pamphlets, and other published materials collected by Murray; photographs; drafts of Murray's speeches, sermons, and writings; financial records; and materials about Murray's ancestors. The collection is rich in documenting most aspects of Murray's paid and unpaid work, travels, and active interests, although her personal life is less well documented.".
- catalog contributor b756930.
- catalog date "1827".
- catalog description "African American activist Pauli Murray was born Anna Pauline Murray in Baltimore, Md., to Agnes Fitzgerald and William Henry Murray. She was raised in Durham, N.C., by her maternal aunt, Pauline Fitzgerald Dame, who later legally adopted her. She was married briefly in the 1930s, but her most important and lasting relationships were with women. She died of pancreatic cancer on July 1, 1985, in Pittsburgh, Pa.".
- catalog description "After graduating from Hunter College (1933), Murray held a variety of jobs; employers included the Works Progress Administration and the Workers' Defense League. She entered Howard University Law School in the fall of 1941, graduated in 1944, and completed graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In the late 1940s she opened a law office in New York City, where she worked until she was hired as an associate attorney in the law offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison in 1956.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00067".
- catalog description "In the 1960s Murray was a university professor and administrator in the United States and in Ghana, served on a study committee for the President's Commission on the Status of Women, and earned a J.D.S. from Yale Law School. A writer, she published a book of poetry, Dark Testament and Other Poems (1970), and four other books: States' Laws on Race and Color (1951), Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family (1956), The Government and Constitution of Ghana (1961), and an autobiography, Song in a Weary Throat, published posthumously in 1987. She also wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles.".
- catalog description "In the early 1970s, Murray had a calling to the Episcopal priesthood; in 1976 she received a Master of Divinity degree from General Theological Seminary in New York City. She was the first African American woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest; her ordination took place in National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on January 8, 1977. Before her retirement in 1984, she served as Priest at the Church of the Atonement in Washington, D.C., and at the Church of the Holy Nativity in Baltimore, Md.".
- catalog description "Pauli Murray Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.".
- catalog description "The collection consists of correspondence; clippings, pamphlets, and other published materials collected by Murray; photographs; drafts of Murray's speeches, sermons, and writings; financial records; and materials about Murray's ancestors. The collection is rich in documenting most aspects of Murray's paid and unpaid work, travels, and active interests, although her personal life is less well documented.".
- catalog description "Unpublished finding aid; see also Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library..., The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs...10v., (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984)".
- catalog extent "59 linear ft.".
- catalog issued "1827".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog subject "Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985.".
- catalog title "Papers, 1827-1985 (inclusive).".