The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice (79 page)

“definitely a feminist”
: Ibid.

“While Mrs. Roosevelt’s”
: PM, “Remembrance of Eleanor Roosevelt.”

67. “ALL THE STRANDS OF MY LIFE HAD COME TOGETHER”

“That I am among”
: PM to Grace Milgram, April 2, 1985, in author’s possession.

During Murray’s extended
: Springer-Kemp, interview by author.

“Please refer”
: Ibid.

“to a shining place”
: PM to Grace Milgram, April 2, 1985.

“in shifts”
: Ibid.

“From here on out”
: Ibid.

She sent the crucifix
: Dovey Johnson Roundtree, interview by author. For Roundtree’s career, see McCabe and Roundtree,
Justice Older Than the Law
. Roundtree is also profiled in
chapter 3
of Sims-Wood, “ ‘We Served America Too!’ ”

Murray gave Maida
: Springer-Kemp, interview by author.

“wouldn’t be needing it”
: Powell, interview by author.

She would be too weak
: George W. Goodman, “Ferraro, at Hunter Graduation, Assails U.S. Cuts in Education,”
NYT
, May 30, 1985.

Pauli had often prayed
: PM,
Song
, 433–34.

When Pauli drew
: Zachary Smith, “Memorial Services for Dr. Pauli Murray,”
Washington AA
, July 9, 1985.

“that the great Russian
: PM,
Song
, 2.

“The power she had”
: Smith, “Memorial Services for Dr. Pauli Murray,”
Washington AA
.

“It was Aunt Pauli’s habit”
: Ibid.

Murray had asked
: Springer-Kemp, interview by author.

“All the strands”
: PM,
Song
, 435.

INDEX

References in
italics
refer to illustrations.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois
(Sherwood)

Abraham Lincoln Brigade,
5.1
,
21.1

Abrams, Charles

ACLU Women’s Rights Project

Addams, Jane

AFL-CIO,
43.1
,
53.1

African Americans: African heritage of,
48.1
,
53.1
,
55.1
,
58.1
; bus travel discrimination against,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
17.1
,
19.1
,
29.1
,
32.1
,
43.1
,
44.1
,
44.2
,
59.1
,
60.1
; college education of,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
44.3
,
59.2
; communism and,
3.1
,
9.3
,
10.2
,
11.1
; in defense industry,
16.1
,
17.2
,
22.1
; discrimination against,
fm3.1
,
17.3
; as domestics,
17.4
,
53.2
; economic conditions of,
5.1
,
17.5
,
18.1
,
22.2
,
42.1
; equal rights of,
6.1
,
23.1
,
31.1
,
35.1
; gradualism rejected by,
43.2
,
44.4
; housing discrimination against,
92
,
17.6
,
22.3
,
23.2
,
31.2
,
38.1
,
41.1
,
43.3
,
50.1
,
50.2
,
56.1
; job discrimination against,
14.1
,
16.2
,
17.7
,
23.3
,
31.3
; jury trials for,
9.4
,
9.5
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
13.1
; in law schools,
2.2
,
8.2
; legal challenges of,
2.3
,
4.1
,
9.6
,
29.2
; lunch counter sit-ins of,
54.1
; lynchings of,
fm3.2
,
1.3
,
3.2
,
4.2
,
13.2
,
14.2
,
15.1
,
17.8
,
14.3
,
17.9
,
18.2
,
51.1
; military service of,
11.2
,
12.3
,
14.4
,
14.5
,
14.6
,
16.3
,
16.4
,
17.10
,
18.3
,
22.4
,
24.1
,
25.1
,
26.1
; newspapers of,
1.4
,
16.5
,
19.2
,
49.1
; “passing” by,
42.2
,
45.1
; political influence of,
3.3
,
9.7
,
17.11
,
26.2
,
43.4
,
43.5
,
44.5
; poll taxes and,
9.8
,
10.5
,
10.6
,
11.3
,
12.4
,
12.5
,
13.3
,
13.4
,
14.7
,
14.8
,
16.6
,
31.4
; as prisoners,
8.3
,
8.4
,
9.9
; railroad travel discrimination against,
43.6
,
49.2
; restaurant discrimination against,
16.7
,
18.4
,
18.5
,
19.3
,
29.3
,
54.2
,
66.1
,
67.1
; segregation of,
itr.1
,
fm3.3
,
6.2
,
8.5
,
9.10
,
10.7
,
14.9
,
15.2
,
17.12
,
31.5
,
36.1
,
44.6
,
49.3
,
59.3
; as sharecroppers,
6.3
,
7.1
,
9.11
,
14.10
,
19.4
; as slaves,
itr.2
,
fm3.4
,
3.4
,
18.6
,
27.1
,
36.2
,
43.7
,
45.2
,
50.3
,
62.1
,
67.2
; social research on,
36.3
; voting rights of,
1.5
,
14.11
,
31.6
,
44.7
,
51.2

Afro-American Studies

Agger, Carolyn

Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933)

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

Agriculture Department, U.S.

Akare, Yaredi “Yaro,”

Akron Beacon Journal

Alabama,
44.1
,
61.1

Alabama, University of,
44.1
,
44.2

Alexander, Will

“All for Mr. Davis”: The Story of Sharecropper Odell Waller
(Murray and Kempton)

All-Pakistan Women’s Association

All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies
(Hull, Smith, and Bell-Scott)

“Alternative Weapon, An” (Murray and Babcock)

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
itr.1
,
21.1
,
28.1
,
31.1
,
32.1
,
61.1

“American Credo” (Murray)

American Friends Service

American Institute of Public Opinion

American Labor Party,
30.1
,
30.2

American Legion

American Newspaper Guild

American Psychiatric Association

Americans for Democratic Action (ADA),
30.1
,
32.1
,
38.1
,
44.1

American University,
14.1
,
16.1

American Women’s Association of Accra

Anderson, Charles “Chief,”
11.1
,
11.2

Anderson, Marian,
4.1
,
4.2
,
19.1
,
56.1
,
59.1
,
59.2
,
60.1

Andersonville

Andrews, Officer

“And the Riots Came…” (Murray)

Annual Dinner-Forum for National Sharecroppers Week,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Anthony, Susan B.

A. Philip Randolph Institute

Arkansas,
31.1
,
49.1

Arkansas State Press
,
49.1
,
49.2
,
49.3

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America,
itr.1
,
63.1

Austin, Louis E.

Axis powers,
14.1
,
17.1
,
17.2

Baah, Kwaku

Babcock, Henry

Bailey, Mona H.

Baker, Josephine

Baldwin, James,
33.1
,
33.2

Baltimore Afro-American
,
fm3.1
,
1.1
,
3.1
,
59.1

Baptists,
9.1
,
15.1

Bar Bulletin

Bard College,
40.1
,
66.1

Barlow, Doris

Barlow, Irene “Renee,”
47.1
,
52.1
,
59.1
,
60.1
,
61.1
,
63.1
,
63.2
,
64.1
,
67.1

Barlow, Mary Jane,
47.1
,
63.1
,
67.1

Barthé, Richmond

Bates, Daisy Lee Gatson,
49.1
,
49.2
,
51.1
,
60.1