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Jane Crow the life of Pauli Murray

Euro-African-American activist Paulli Murray was a feminist lawyer, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. Born in 1910 and identified as female, she believed from childhood she was male. Before there was a social movement to support transgender identity...

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Main Author: Rosenberg, Rosalind (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Murray, Pauli, > 1910-1985.
African American intellectuals > Biography.
African American poets > Biography.
African American lawyers > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
African American feminists > Biography.
African American transgender people > Biography.
Social reformers > United States > Biography.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Biographies.
Summary: Euro-African-American activist Paulli Murray was a feminist lawyer, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. Born in 1910 and identified as female, she believed from childhood she was male. Before there was a social movement to support transgender identity, she devised attacks on all arbitrary distinctions, greatly expanding the idea of equality in the process.
Physical Description: xvii, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 019005381X
9780190053819
Author Notes: Rosalind Rosenberg is Professor of History Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century, Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics, and Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism.

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