Concert Program & Educational Materials
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There’s so much more to learn about Pauli!
Here are sources we used while developing our Program Notes.
Websites last accessed May 26, 2026
Black, queer, feminist, erased from history: Meet the most important legal scholar you’ve likely never heard of – Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the Supreme Court’s liberal hero, but her work sits on the shoulders of Dr. Pauli Murray”, by Brittney Cooper, Salon. Feb. 2015. https://www.salon.com/2015/02/18/black_queer_feminist_erased_from_history_meet_the_most_important_legal_scholar_youve_likely_never_heard_of/
Bound for Sainthood. Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, Learning for Justice. January 11, 2013. Southern Poverty Law Center. https://archive.learningforjustice.org/magazine/bound-for-sainthood
This is a reprint of an article from the Durham Herald-Sun on July 7, 2012, page A1.
Contemplative Agitator: Tracing the Contours of Pauli Murray’s Black Contemplative Homiletic McCray, Donyelle. Homiletic Vol. 49 No. 2 (2024): Special Issue: Spirituality, Preaching & Bridging Racial Divides: Exploring Black Contemplative Preaching https://doi.org/10.15695/hmltc.v49i2.5659
Dark Testament and Other Poems. Pauli Murray. Silvermine Publishers Incorporated, 1970
Finding Pauli Murray: The Black Queer Feminist Civil Rights Lawyer Priest Who Co-Founded NOW, but that History Nearly Forgot. National Organization for Women. October 24, 2016. Black Women — A Heroic Tradition and a Challenge. https://now.org/about/history/finding-pauli-murray/
The Founding of NOW, Feminist Chronicles – 1966, http://www.feminist.org/research/chronicles/fc1966.html
The Firebrand and the First Lady – Portrait of a Friendship, Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice, Patricia Bell-Scott (Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin, Random House, 2016)
A Heroine in Everyday Life: Pauli Murray’s Legal Education, Jeffrey D. Gonda, https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/blog/heroine-in-everyday-life-pauli-murrays-legal-education
Holy Women, Holy Men: Celebrating the Saints (2010) Church Publishing Incorporated. ISBN: 9780898696783.
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. Rosalind Rosenberg, Oxford University Press, 2017.
The Laws in Context William Sturkey, in Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance. University of North Carolina, https://onthebooks.lib.unc.edu/jim-crow-and-algorithms-of-resistance/laws/the-laws-in-context/
Papers of Pauli Murray, 1827 – 1985, A Finding Aid, Schlesinger Library, http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00067
Pauli Murray. National Women’s History Museum. 2021. www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/pauli-murray
Pauli Murray bio is scrubbed from federal site, to locals’ dismay
Storey Wertheimer, The 9th Street Journal. March 6, 2025
https://9thstreetjournal.
org/2025/03/06/pauli-murray-bio-is-scrubbed-from-federal-
site-to-locals-dismay/. This article also notes other erasures of queer identities from National Historic Sites.
VIDEO: Pauli Murray: Breaking Barriers of Race and Gender New York Historical Society. December 19, 2022. Women & the American Story, Episode 36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzoeoOyl5ww&t=2s
Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice.
https://www.paulimurraycenter.com/
Pauli Murray, Civil Rights icon and former professor, to appear on American Quarter Julian Cardillo. Brandeis at 75 essay. https://www.brandeis.edu/75/stories/pauli-murray-quarter.html
https://www.brandeis.edu/75/stories/pauli-murray-quarter.html
Pauli Murray: A Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Trailblazer Southern Oral History Program, Carolina K-12 Powerpoint presentation. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2018/01/PauliMurrayPPT.pdf
Pauli Murray Commission “Bring the new Pauli Murray Commission to your chorus for 2025-2026 Seasons!” GALA Choruses, June 27th, 2024. https://galachoruses.org/resource/pauli-commission/
Pauli Murray Hall: UNC’s Departments of History, Political Science, and Sociology and the Curriculum on Peace, War, and Defense begin the renaming of Hamilton Hall. University of North Carolina, College of Arts and Sciences: History Department. https://history.unc.edu/2020/07/pauli-murray-hall-uncs-departments-of-history-political-science-and-sociology-and-the-curriculum-on-peace-war-and-defense-begin-the-renaming-of-hamilton-hall/
Pauli Murray Named to Episcopal Sainthood. Duke Today, July 14, 2012 https://today.duke.edu/2012/07/saintmurray
Pauli Murray’s Proud Shoes: A Classic in African American Genealogy. National Museum of African American History & Culture. Timeline of events in Pauli’s life and videotape of her interview with Charles Kurralt after her historic Pentacost/Mother’s Day Service at St. Phillips. https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/pauli-murrays-proud-shoes
Pauli Murray: Visionary for Justice (Secondary Grades Curriculum Guide, which includes intersectional “Identity Flower” materials) Pauli Murray Center. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c65c2920cf57db461b27ed8/t/69a739a3e80bd567d8d39a4c/1772566947961/Set+-+Secondary+Grades+Curriculum.docx.pdf
Pentacost/Mother’s Day Service Audio tape from May 14th, 1978, Pauli Murray preaching and serving Communion at St. Phillip’s Church, Durham, NC. Harvard Library. https://mps.lib.harvard.edu/sds/audio/427009276
The Pioneering Pauli Murray: Lawyer, Activist, Scholar and Priest National Museum of African American History and Culture. Stories You Should Know
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/pioneering-pauli-murray-lawyer-activist-scholar-and-priest
Original address of information about Pauli Murray that had been provided at the Eleanore Roosevelt National Historic Site:
https://www.nps.gov/nhl/news/LC/fall2016/PauliMurrayES.pdf
Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage, by Pauli Murray, Harper & Row, Amazon.com, https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Song+in+a+Weary+Throat
Three Thousand Miles on a Dime in Ten Days Pauli Murray. Negro Anthology: 1931-1934, edited by Nancy Cunard, Wishart and Co., 1934, pp. 90-93.
Timeline of Pauli Murray’s Life. Pauli Murray Center. https://www.paulimurraycenter.com/murray-timeline