Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray Esq. (1910-1985), civil rights lawyer and Episcopal priest was an activist who fought to dismantle segregation and end discrimination through the courts and on the streets

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Attorney, author, scholar, and Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray, the first black female Episcopal Church deacon. In January of 1977, she was ordained as the first black female Episcopal priest. She is depicted in the source photograph in her study in her Arlington, Virginia apartment. December 22, 1976. Milton Williams, Moments in Time, 1973-1993 (Nashville: James C. Winston Publishing Co., 1996), 110. A black-and-white photograph of the Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray sitting at a typewriter by a desk crowded with papers. The photograph is stamped and inscribed on the back.

Catalog date

December 21, 1977

Recorded places

Arlington County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Civil Rights; Episcopalian; Feminism; Local and regional; Photography; Religion; Social reform

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