Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware [electronic resource] : forty years of letters in black and white / edited by Anne Firor Scott.

9781469605425 (ebook) :

Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

1 online resource (xiii, 194 p., [6] p. of plates) : ports.

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In 1942, Pauli Murray, a young black woman studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nation's leading historians. A friendship and a correspondence began, lasting until Murray's 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.

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May 06, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.