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Three-year-old Pauli Murray was sent to Durham, North Carolina, to live with her mother's family. There, she was raised by her maternal aunts, Sarah (Sallie) Fitzgerald and Pauline Fitzgerald Dame (both teachers), as well as her maternal grandparents, Robert and Cornelia (Smith) Fitzgerald. [15]
Explore the family history of Pauli Murray, a pioneering lawyer, priest, and writer who published a major African American genealogy. Her book, "Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family," published 20 years before "Roots", showcases the racial and social dynamics between the union of a free black family from the north and a mixed-race ...
10 de abr. de 2017 · Fortunately for Murray, she had, by then, a strong, if complicated, sense of family elsewhere. She lived with her Aunt Pauline in Durham, North Carolina, at the home of her maternal...
13 de may. de 2024 · She was orphaned by the age of six—a circumstance that she described as the most significant fact of her childhood—and went to live with her aunt Pauline Fitzgerald and her maternal grandparents, Cornelia and Robert Fitzgerald, in Durham, North Carolina.
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Anne Pauline Murray was born on November 20, 1910 in Baltimore Maryland, the fourth of six children born to Agnes Fitzgerald and William Murray. When Murray was three, her mother died from a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
Pauli Murray’s Proud Shoes: A Classic in African American Genealogy explores the family history of Pauli Murray, a pioneering lawyer, priest and writer. Her book, Proud Shoes: An African American Family, showcases the racial and social dynamics between the union of a free black family from the north and a mixed-race family of the south.
Pauli understood the horrors of life under Jim Crow at a young age. Her family lived in constant fear of the Ku Klux Klan, and her father was brutally murdered by a white guard while living in a mental hospital. Pauli’s understanding of race was further informed by her family’s mixed heritage.
