Jane Crow, Rosalind Rosenberg
Jane Crow, Rosalind Rosenberg
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Jane Crow
The Life of Pauli Murray

Author: Rosalind Rosenberg

Narrator: Janina Edwards

Unabridged: 18 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/08/2020


Synopsis

In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of Pauli Murray, who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements.

A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law. In the 1950s, her legal scholarship helped Thurgood Marshall challenge segregation head-on in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.

When appointed by Eleanor Roosevelt to the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1962, she advanced the idea of Jane Crow, arguing that the same reasons used to condemn race discrimination could be used to battle gender discrimination. In 1965, she became the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and the following year persuaded Betty Friedan to found an NAACP for women, which became NOW.


About Rosalind Rosenberg

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Raymond

Jane Crow is a very well written and researched book on the life of lawyer, activist, writer, and priest Pauli Murray. Pauli Murray is a person I believe everyone should get to know especially if they are not familiar with her like I was when I started reading this book. Her research played an impor......more

Pauli Murray is the person that coined the term “Jane Crow”, and was the first to legally address the twin oppressions of color and gender. I had seen her name mentioned in many places, but this is the first time I’ve read her story. Thank you to Net Galley and Oxford University Press for the opport......more

This is a dry, academic biography of a fascinating, little-known but impressive civil rights activist. Born in 1910, Pauli Murray was a mixed-race woman who today would be considered a transgender man, but during her lifetime this was a secret kept from all but her closest friends. After growing up......more

Goodreads review by Nora

If for no other reason, read this because Pauli Murray is a name we all should know, respect, and honor as one of the most influential, under-recognized Americans of the 20th c. Rosenberg's biography is thoughtful, comprehensive, and unafraid to tackle subjects which are still evolving before our eye......more