Pauli Murray & Caroline Ware
Subtitle: forty years of letters in black and white
By: edited by Anne Firor Scott
Contributors: Ware, Caroline F. 1899-1990; Scott, Anne Firor, 1921-
Series: Gender & American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Murray, Pauli, -- 1910-1985 -- Correspondence; Ware, Caroline F. -- 1899-1990 -- Correspondence; Women social reformers -- United States -- Correspondence; Women college teachers -- United States -- Correspondence; African American women civil rights workers -- Correspondence; Women historians -- United States -- Correspondence; Feminists -- United States -- Correspondence; Women intellectuals -- United States -- Correspondence
Genres: Correspondence
Other titles: Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware; Forty years of letters in black and white
Description: "In the fall of 1942 a young black law student at Howard University visited a class in constitutional law taught by one of the nation's leading historians: so began the decades-long friendship between Pauli Murray, the student, and Caroline Ware, the historian. This collection of their letters begins in 1943 and continues (with few interruptions) until Murray's death in 1985. The correspondence illuminates a significant period in what is now labeled the "long civil rights movement" as well as the early days of second wave feminism."

"Ware (1899-1990) was a Boston Brahmin, an accomplished social historian, a consumer advocate, and a community development specialist who worked in Asia and virtually every Latin American country. Among Ware's other activities, she edited the final volume of UNESCO's History of Mankind. Murray (1910-1985), raised in North Carolina, became a labor lawyer, a teacher, and a lifelong political and social activist. As a writer, she is best known for her family memoir Proud Shoes and her epic poem Dark Testament. Murray also was the first African American woman ordained an Episcopal priest."

"The wide-ranging topics of their correspondence include civil rights, electoral politics, the labor movement, the debate about the Fair Employment Practices Committee, McCarthyism, feminism, and the National Organization for Women (of which both were founding members), as well as personal and private concerns. Their words capture the unguarded thoughts and reactions of two highly intelligent women - one white, one black: one a northerner, one a southerner - both dedicated to the cause of human rights. In the process, the letters paint compelling self-portraits."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The correspondence begins; title: The Cold War, Mccarthyism, and civil rights; title: Family history, global history; title: Ghana, Unesco, and beyond; title: Writing, editing, and Brandeis; title: The last phase