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This 5 page paper discusses the way in which Pauli Murray's book "Proud Shoes" reveals Murray's insights into racism in America; it also discusses the way in which assumptions about race impacted relationships between blacks. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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racism in America; it also discusses the way in which assumptions about race impacted relationships between blacks. Brief Biography Pauli Murray was orphaned when she was quite young; she was
raised by "her maternal grandparents and an aunt, in whose first-grade class she learned to read" (Pauli Murray). Her aunts and grandparents took a great interest in her upbringing, and
she wrote that although she had no parents, she had "... in effect three mothers, each trying to impress upon me those traits of character expected of a Fitzgerald-stern devotion
to duty, capacity for hard work, industry and thrift, and above all honor and courage in all things" (Pauli Murray). She graduated at the top of her high school class,
and graduated with honors from Hunter College in New York, "but was denied admission to law school at the University of North Carolina in 1938 because of her race, and
to Harvard University because of her gender" (Pauli Murray). These experiences with discrimination turned her into a life-long activist (Pauli Murray). Murray was one of the founders of the National
Association of Women (NOW) (Pauli Murray). Murray received her law degree from Howard University; a Masters Degree in Law from UC Berkeley; she tutored law at Yale and received a
doctorate there in 1965 (Pauli Murray). Among other positions, Murray was a civil rights lawyer, "a professor, a college vice president, and deputy attorney general of California" (Pauli Murray). Mademoiselle
Magazine named her Woman of the Year in 1947 (Pauli Murray). Beneath it all, though, Murray struggled with issues of self-esteem; she expressed her doubts by saying that she was
"not entirely free from the prevalent idea that I must prove myself" (Pauli Murray). When she was 62, rather than contemplating retirement, Murray started a new career: she entered the
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