| | 3 of 5 stars ***
PAULI MURRAY
Born in Baltimore, Maryland
Educated in segregated public schools.
Graduated from Hunter College in 1933
Attempted to gain admission into the UNC law school but was denied due to her race
Denied Harvard University admission due to gender
Was the first African American to receive Yale law docotrate
Fouding member of NOW
First black female priest ordained by the Episcopal Church
Known as civil rights advocate, feminist, lawyer, poet, teacher, and ordained minister
Much of my life in the South had been overshadowed by a lurking fear. Terrified of the consequences of overt protest against racial segreegation, I had sullenly endured its indignities when I could not avoid them. When I finally confronted my fear and took a concrete step to battle for social justice, the accumulated shame began to dissolve in a new sense of self-respet. For me, the real victory of that encounter with the Jim Crow system of the South was the liberation of my mind from years of enslavement. pg 128
There are people (you’ve probably noted it also) who have the unconscious faculty of making the world spin around themselves, throb and expand, contract and go dizzy. Then, when they are gone away, you feel sick and lonesome and meaningless. In the chemistry lab at school, did you ever hold a test tube, pouring in liquids and powders and seeing nothing happen until a certain liquid or a certain powder is poured in and then everything begins to smoke and fume, bubble and boil, hiss to foam, and sometimes even explode? The tube suddenly full of action and movement and life. Well, there are people like those certain liquids or powders; at a given moment they come into a room, or into a town, even into a country- and the place is never the same again. Things bubble, boil, change. Sometimes the whold world is changed. Alexander came. Christ. Marconi. A Russian named Lenin. pg 227 Father and Son |
| | Posted 7/30/2006 9:19 PM - 11 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
- recommend
  - recs0
- share
- email
 - sent0
|
