Anna Pauline Murray (1910–1985), better known as Pauli, was a pioneering civil and human rights activist, feminist and legal theorist, preacher, and poet. The Schlesinger Library holds the Papers of Pauli Murray, a vast resource comprised of audiotapes, correspondence, legal briefs, photographs, sermons, speeches, and more.
This panel discussion focuses on Pauli Murray’s groundbreaking work, her tumultuous times, and today’s Murray moment, which includes Yale naming a new residential college in her honor and the publication of landmark books by panelists Patricia Bell-Scott and Rosalind Rosenberg, both of whom used the library’s materials.
MODERATOR:
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
PANELISTS:
Patricia Bell-Scott (8:30), professor emerita of women’s studies and human development, University of Georgia
Brittney Cooper (18:20), assistant professor of women’s and gender studies, Rutgers University
Rosalind Rosenberg (28:46), professor emerita of history, Barnard College
Kenneth W. Mack (39:11)—Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and 2016–2017 Frances B. Cashin Fellow, Radcliffe Institute—offers a brief response to the presentations.
Post time: May-29-2017