Writings & Resources

Courtesy of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University

    • Murray, Pauli. “Three Thousand Miles on a Dime in Ten Days.” Negro Anthology: 1931-1934, edited by Nancy Cunard, Wishart and Co., 1934, pp. 90-93.

    • Murray, Pauli. “Negro Youth’s Dilemma.” Threshold, April 1942, pp. 8-11.

    • Murray, Pauli, and Henry Babcock.“An Alternative Weapon.” South Today, Winter 1942-1943, pp. 53-57. 

    • Murray, Pauli. “Negroes Are Fed Up.” Common Sense, August 1943, pp. 274-76.

    • Murray, Pauli. “And the Riots Came.” The Call, 1943, pp. 4.

    • Murray, Pauli.  “A Blueprint for First Class Citizenship.” The Crisis, vol. 52, no. 11, 1944, pp. 358-59.

    • Murray, Pauli. “The Right to Equal Opportunity in Employment.” California Law Review. vol 33, no. 3, 1945, pp. 388-433.   

    • Murray, Pauli. “Why Negro Girls Stay Single.” Negro Digest, vol. 5, no. 9, 1947, pp. 4-8.

    • Murray, Pauli. “The Historical Development of Race Laws in the United States.” The Journal of Negro Education, vol. 22, no. 1, 1953, pp. 4–15.

    • Murray, Pauli, and Mary O. Eastwood. “Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII.” George Washington Law Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 1965, pp. 232-56. 

    • Murray, Pauli. “Protest against the Legal Status of the Negro.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 357, 1965, pp. 55–64.

    • Murray, Pauli. Roots of the Racial Crisis: Prologue to Policy. 1965. Yale University,J.S.D. Dissertation. 

    • Murray, Pauli. “Black Theology and Feminist Theology: A Comparative View.” Anglican Theological Review, vol 60, no. 1, 1978, pp. 3-24.

    • Murray, Pauli, and Verge Lake. States’ Laws on Race and Color and Appendices. Woman’s Division of Christian Service, Board of Missions of the Methodist Church, 1955.

    • Murray, Pauli. Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family. Beacon Press, 1999.

    • Murray, Pauli, and Leslie Rubin. The Constitution and Government of Ghana. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1964.

    • Murray, Pauli. Dark Testament And Other Poems. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

    • Murray, Pauli. Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

 Pauli’s Writing

Resources About Pauli Murray

    • Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. Howard University, Washington, DC.

    • Pauli Murray Papers, The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

    • Southern Oral History Program, Wilson Library. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

    • Special Collections, Alderman Library. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

    • Antler, Joyce. “Pauli Murray: The Brandeis Years.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 78–82. 

    • Azaransky, Sarah. “Introduction to Roundtable: Embodying Radical Democracy: Pauli Murray’s Legacies and Resources for a Common Freedom Struggle.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 29, no. 1, 2013, pp. 141–42. 

    • Azaransky, Sarah. “Jane Crow: Pauli Murray’s Intersections and Antidiscrimination Law.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 29, no. 1, 2013, pp. 155–60. 

    • Bell-Scott, Patricia. “‘To Write Like Never Before’: Pauli Murray’s Enduring Yearning.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 58–61. 

    • Brown, Flora Bryant. “NAACP Sponsored Sit-Ins by Howard University Students in Washington, D.C., 1943-1944.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 84, no. 4,  2000, pp. 274-286.

    • Bucher, Christina G. “Pauli Murray: A Case for the Poetry.” North Carolina Literary Review, vol. 13, 2004, pp. 59–73.

    • Dorrien, Gary. “Race, Gender, Exclusion, and Divine Discontent: Pauli Murray and the Intersections of Liberation and Reconciliation.” CrossCurrents, vol. 67, no. 2, University of North Carolina Press, 2017, pp. 373–99.

    • Drury, Doreen M. “Boy-Girl, Imp, Priest: Pauli Murray and the Limits of Identity.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 29, no. 1, [Indiana University Press, FSR, Inc], 2013, pp. 142–47.

    • Drury, Doreen M. “Love, Ambition, and ‘Invisible Footnotes’ in the Life and Writing of Pauli Murray.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 11, no. 3, 2009, pp. 295–309. 

    • Elin Fisher, Simon D. “Challenging Dissemblance in Pauli Murray Historiography, Sketching a History of the Trans New Negro.” The Journal of African American History, vol. 104, no. 2, 2019, pp. 176–200. 

    • Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. “Admitting Pauli Murray.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 62–67. 

    • Hartmann, Susan M. “Pauli Murray and the ‘Juncture of Women’s Liberation and Black Liberation.’” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 74–77.

    • Humez, Jean M. “Pauli Murray’s Histories of Loyalty and Revolt.” Black American Literature Forum, vol. 24, no. 2, 1990, pp. 315-55.

    • Keaveney, Hiroki Kimiko. “Christian, Queer and Interracial: The Story of Pauli Murray and Irene Barlow.” 2016. San Francisco State University, MA Thesis. 

    • Peppard, Christiana Z. “Poetry, Ethics, and the Legacy of Pauli Murray.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, vol. 30, no.1, 2010, pp. 21-43.

    • Peppard, Christiana Z. “Democracy, the Verb: Pauli Murray’s Poetry as a Resource for Ongoing Freedom Struggles.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 29, no.1, 2013, pp. 148-155.

    • Pinn, Anthony B. “Pauli Murray’s Triadic Strategy of Engagement.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 29, no.1, 2013, 160-164.

    • Rosenberg, Rosalind. “The Conjunction of Race and Gender.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 68-73.

    • Rupp, Leila J., and Verta Taylor. “Pauli Murray: The Unasked Question.” Journal of Women’s History, vol 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 83-87.

    • Simmons-Thorne, Naomi. “Pauli Murray and the Pronominal Problem: a De-essentialist Trans Historiography.” Activist History Review, May 2019. 

    • Smith, Kim. “Book of Harriet: The Disambiguation of Five North Carolinian Siblings 1840-1941.” 2016. Duke University, MA Thesis.

    • Suk, Julie C. “A DANGEROUS IMBALANCE: PAULI MURRAY’S EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AND THE PATH TO EQUAL POWER.” Virginia Law Review, vol. 107, 2021, pp. 3-26.

    • Ware, Susan. “Pauli Murray’s Notable Connections.” Journal of Women’s History, vol 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 54-57.

    • Azaransky, Sarah. The Dream is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith. New York, Oxford University Press, 2011.

    • Bell-Scott, Patricia. The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice. Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

    • Jones, Martha. Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. Basic Books, 2020.

    • Mayeri, Serena. Reasoning From Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution. Harvard University Press, 2011.

    • O’Dell, Darlene. Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray. University Press of Virginia, 2001.

    • Pinn, Anthony B., ed. Pauli Murray: Selected Sermons and Writings. Orbis Books, 2006.

    • Rosenberg, Rosalind. Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. New York, Oxford University Press, 2017.

    • Saxby, Troy. Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life. University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

    • Stevens-Holsey, Rosita, and Terry Catasús Jennings. Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist. Yellow Jacket, 2022.

    • Scott, Anne Firor, ed. Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White. University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

    • Sherman, Richard B. The Case of Odell Waller and Virginia Justice, 1940-1942. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

    • Caldbeck, Elaine. “The Poetry of Pauli Murray, African American Civil Rights Lawyer and Priest.” Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion: Views from the Other Side, edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether, Fortress Press, 2002, pp. 45–56.

    • Cooper, Brittney C. “Queering Jane Crow: Pauli Murray’s Quest for an Unhyphenated Identity.” Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women. University of Illinois Press, 2017. 

    • Gilmore, Glenda. “Imagining Integration.” Defying Dixie: The radical roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950. W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.

    • Mack, Kenneth. “The Trials of Pauli Murray.” Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer. Harvard University Press, 2012.

    • Olson, Lynn. “Far More Terrible for Women.” Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830-1970. New York: Scribner, 2001.

    • Taylor, Leila J. Rupp and Verta. “Lesbian Existence and the Women’s Movement: Researching the ‘Lavender Herring’.” Feminism and Social Change: Bridging Theory and Practice, edited by Heidi Gottfried, University of Illinois Press, 1996, pp. 143-159.