Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
A Note on Pronouns and Other Word Choices
Introduction
Part I: Coming of Age, 1910-1937
Chapter 1 - A Southern Childhood
Chapter 2 - Escape to New York
Part II: Confronting Jim Crow, 1938-1941
Chapter 3 - "Members of Your Race Are Not Admitted"
Chapter 4 - Bus Trouble
Chapter 5 - A Death Sentence Leads to Law School
Part III: Naming Jane Crow, 1941-1946
Chapter 6 - "I Would Gladly Change My Sex"
Chapter 7 - California Promise
Part IV: Surviving the Cold War, 1946-1961
Chapter 8 - "Apostles of Fear"
Chapter 9 - A Person In Between
Chapter 10 - "What Is Africa to Me?"
Part V: A Chance to Lead, 1961-1967
Chapter 11 - Making Sex Suspect
Chapter 12 - Invisible Woman
Chapter 13 - Toward an NAACP for Women
Part VI: To Teach, To Preach, 1967-1977
Chapter 14 - Professor Murray
Chapter 15 - Triumph and Loss
Chapter 16 - The Reverend Dr. Murray
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Rosalind Rosenberg is Professor of History Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century, Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics, and Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism.
"Rosenberg brilliantly situates Murray at the forefront of post-WW
II civil and women's rights movements....This major contribution to
African American history and queer studies sheds light on Murray's
lifelong struggles with gender identity. The feminist scholar and
Episcopal priest identified as a man, established relationships
with women, donned men's clothes, and during the 1930s
unsuccessfully underwent hormone therapy in order to transition
from female to
male. A stellar and fascinating monograph that celebrates Murray's
lesser-known accomplishments. Essential."--CHOICE
"Rosenberg offers a compelling look at a complicated
woman."--Booklist, Starred Review
"A cradle-to-grave account about one of the most interesting,
accomplished, and controversial figures in 20th-century America who
is far too little known....Assiduous research and clear prose give
[Pauli] Murray her due."--Kirkus
"Placing Murray in historical context with practiced ease,
Rosenberg weaves these many threads together into an authoritative
narrative that will introduce Murray to many future
generations."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Rosenberg tells Murray's story as she lived it but also casts a
well-informed, modern eye on the intersections and omissions within
that life. Her striking interpretive work clearly shows what Murray
herself suspected: that everything Murray did was 'part of
history...an instrument for achieving things.'"--Foreword
Reviews
"A fascinating look at the incredible life of Pauli Murray, a
mixed-race, transgender scholar, lawyer, activist, priest, and
trailblazer who played a pivotal role in the civil rights and
women's movements of the 20th century."--The Advocate
"A splendid definitive biography....This thorough investigation
into Murray's life is fascinating, as the author traces the
intersection among gender, race, and politics."--Library Journal,
Starred Review
"Historical figures aren't human flotsam, swirling into public
awareness at random intervals. Instead, they are almost always
borne back to us on the current of our own times. In Murray's case,
it's not simply that her public struggles on behalf of women,
minorities, and the working class suddenly seem more relevant than
ever. It's that her private struggles--documented for the first
time in all their fullness by Rosenberg--have recently become our
public
ones."--New Yorker
"A compelling read from start to finish....Like all the best
biographies, this is more than just the story of a single figure.
It is the story of America, told through the intersections of race,
gender, and sexuality that have come to define it....Rosenberg's
Jane Crow makes not only an important contribution to the fields of
Black, feminist, and trans history, but also offers us the timely
reminder that, as Murray herself once wrote, 'one person and a
typewriter make a movement.'"--Lambda Literary
"A fresh perspective on this crucial slice of history."--Gay &
Lesbian Review
"Rosenberg's research is thorough, and her lively style keeps
readers engaged....[A]n edifying and enjoyable read."--Christian
Century
"Beautifully crafted...[Jane Crow] underscore[s] the pleasures of
biography as history."--The American Historical Review
"Rosenberg has done the world an immense favor by presenting, in
all its triumph and pathos, the life (or perhaps 'lives' is more
accurate) of this brilliant and defiant
African-American."--National Catholic Review
"Meticulously researched, expansive in its coverage of Murray's
many achievements, engagingly written overall, Rosenberg has given
us the means to a greater appreciation of this most remarkable
American, and provides a foundation for even further conversation
about her significance and legacy."--North Carolina Literary
Review
"Rosenberg has delivered an insightful, sensitive, and long-overdue
biography that gives Murray her rightful place among the twentieth
century's most important civil rights activitists."--Jeffrey J.
Crow, North Carolina Historical Review
"Rosalind Rosenberg's Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray is a
highly readable account of Murray's intense and life-long battle to
confront social issues bound up in the entangled threads of race,
sexuality, gender, and class... Her narrative has an immediacy that
seamlessly connects Murray's personal and public lives."--Southern
Register
"Jane Crow does justice to the powerful mind and personal pain of
Pauli Murray and to the momentous events she had a hand in bringing
to pass. This is a book that asks us to meet it with an energy and
compassion that does honor to its subject and will change the way
we understand our world." -- Nancy Kreml, Resources for Gender and
Women's Studies: A Feminist Review
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