The Dream Is Freedom
Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20005686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Azaransky (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 176 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Dream Is Freedom (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744817.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2481792959 |
| Open Library | OL28462051M |
| ISBN | 9780199744817 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Pauli Murray (1910–85) was a poet, lawyer, activist, and priest, as well as a significant figure in the civil rights and women's movements. Throughout her careers and activism, Murray espoused faith in an American democracy that is partially present and yet to come. In the 1940s Murray was in the vanguard of black activists to use nonviolent direct action. A decade before the Montgomery bus boycott, Murray organized sit-ins of segregated restaurants in Washington D.C. and was arrested for sitting in the front section of a bus in Virginia. Murray pioneered the category Jane Crow to describe discrimination she experienced as a result of racism and sexism. She used Jane Crow in the 1960s to expand equal protection provisions for African American women. A co-founder of the National Organization of Women, Murray insisted on the interrelation of all human rights. Her professional and personal relationships included major figures in the ongoing struggle for civil rights for all Americans, including Thurgood Marshall and Eleanor Roosevelt. In seminary in the 1970s, Murray developed a black feminist critique of emerging black male and white feminist theologies. After becoming the first African American woman Episcopal priest in 1977, Murray emphasized the particularity of African American women's experiences, while proclaiming a universal message of salvation. This book examines Murray's substantial body of published writings as well personal letters, journals, and unpublished manuscripts. The book traces the development of Murray's thought over fifty years, ranging from her theologically rich democratic criticism of the 1930s to her democratically inflected sermons of the 1980s
Dream · Neuroscience · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Theological Perspectives and Practices · African American feminists · African American intellectuals · African american lawyers · African American poets · African American women · African American women civil rights workers · African americans · biography · Christianity · Civil rights workers · Clergy · Democracy · Episcopal Church · Episcopal church, clergy · History · Intellectual life · Intellectuals · Poets · Political and social views · Religion · Religious aspects · religious aspects, christianity
Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry
Pauli Murray's Peter Panic
The Triumph of the Negro Intellectual
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the Metalanguage of Race, and the Genealogy of Black Feminist Legal Theory
Black Tree Play
Challenging Dissemblance in Pauli Murray Historiography, Sketching a History of the Trans New Negro
Pauli Murray's journey toward social justice
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |