The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and t...
The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and t...
The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice / Patricia Bell-Scott.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2016]
Call Numbers
G 2017/5421
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xix, 454 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prelude: Camp Tera, 1933-35 -- Taking aim at the White House, 1938-40 -- Bumping up against the law, 1940-42 -- Making friends with the First Lady, 1942-44 -- Standing up to life's challenges, 1944-45 -- Fashioning new lives, 1945-52 -- Drawing closer as friends, 1952-55 -- Fighting for a just world...
Prelude: Camp Tera, 1933-35 -- Taking aim at the White House, 1938-40. "It is the problem of my people" ; "Members of your race are not admitted" ; "We have to be very careful about the people we select" ; "I am resigning" ; "We ... are the disinherited" ; "It was the highest honor ... to meet and t...
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2016]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2016]
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Pauli Murray first saw Eleanor Roosevelt in 1933, at the height of the Depression, at a government-sponsored, two-hundred-acre camp for unemployed women where Murray was living, something the first lady had pushed her husband to set up in her effort to do what she could for working women and the poor. The first lady appeared one day unannounced, be...
Alternative Titles
Full title
The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice / Patricia Bell-Scott.
Portion of title
Portrait of a friendship, Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-434) and index.
Contextual Information
Awards
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, Shortlist 2017.
National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction, 2016.
Date Copyright
©2016
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
G 2017/5421
Record Identifier
74VKVgyEqGlg
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyEqGlg
Other Identifiers
ISBN
9780679446521 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0679446524 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
DDC
973.917092
MMS ID
991024148717202626
