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The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship

Patricia Bell-Scott

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#2468 of 3,809 books · #894 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction (2017).

This book was a National Book Award nominee. In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old Pauli Murray wrote a letter to the President and First Lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, protesting racial segregation in the South. Eleanor wrote back. So began a friendship that would last for a quarter of a century, as Pauli became a lawyer, principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a co-founder of the National Organization of Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat and first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9781101946923
Topics
Civil rights movementFriendshipWomen's rights activism

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