Proud Shoes. The Story of an American Family. (Inscribed and signed)

Pauli Murray

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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1956). 276pp. 8½ x 5¾ inches. Publisher s quarter cloth and boards. A very good copy in a dust jacket in poor condition, now protected in a clear mylar wrapper. First edition, first printing of the author s first book and now quite scarce. Inscribed in the year of publication: "November 24, 1956. For Larry with gratitude and affection Pauli." A family memoir by this poet, lawyer, Episcopal minister, and civil rights activist, tracing her complex ancestry of "slave owning aristocratic Southerners, Cherokee Indians, free-born Yankee Negroes, a white woman of Swedish-Finnish descent, a half- Irish mulatto, and an octaroon slave of surpassing beauty." Murray (1910 1985) became a groundbreaking attorney and advocate for civil and women s rights. She was the first Black woman ordained as an Episcopal priest and the first woman to earn a J.S.D. from Yale Law School. Praised by Thurgood Marshall, she shaped key legal arguments in the fight for racial and gender equality. Brignano 576. N° de réf. du vendeur 3734783

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Titre : Proud Shoes. The Story of an American Family...
Reliure : Couverture rigide
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Edition : Edition originale