The Firebrand and the First Lady by Patricia Bell-Scott

The Firebrand and the First Lady by Patricia Bell-Scott

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE * The riveting history of how Pauli Murray--a brilliant writer-turned-activist--and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America.

"A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt." --Essence

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.

Bell-Scott, Patricia: -

Patricia Bell-Scott, professor emerita at the University of Georgia, wrote the award-winning The Firebrand and the First Lady, an account of Murray's relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt. She is co-editor of the best-selling Doublestitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters, which earned the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize, and is also co-founding editor of Sage: A Scholarly Journal of Black Women.

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ISBN 13	9780679767299
ISBN 10	0679767290
Title	The Firebrand and the First Lady
Author	Patricia Bell-Scott
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2017-01-24
Number of pages	480
Prizes	Winner of Lillian Smith Book Award 2017, Long-listed for National Book Award Nominee 2016
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