nPosted on November 20, 2018
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nThere aren’t enough days in the year to talk about all the amazing black women that have contributed their talents and smarts and passion to U.S. history…
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n…But I still have to try to mention some of them, here and there, because most of us don’t know enough of our “black history” nor of our “her-story,” let alone our “black her-story”!
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Pauli Murray – born in Maryland on this date in 1910 – became the first black American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest. That was in 1977, the first year that women could be ordained by that church.
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nAt that point, Murray had already done so so so so much!
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nShe went to college at age 16.
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nShe ended up getting a Bachelor’s Degree in English, plus a degree AND Master’s Degree AND Doctorate in law. She went to such esteemed universities as Howard, U.C. Berkeley, and Yale.
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nShe sat in the “white section” of a bus in Virginia about 15 years before Rosa Parks famously sat in the “white” section. Murray, like Parks more than a decade later, was arrested.
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nMurray was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement and a civil rights lawyer. She wrote the “bible” of the civil rights movement.
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nShe worked against sexism as well, in court and out. She helped start the National Organization for Women (NOW), and she was appointed by John F. Kennedy to serve on a Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.
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nShe taught or held administrative positions at three different universities / law schools.
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She wrote a lot, and she published a lot. In addition to all the writing she did as apart of her work in the law, and the oh-so-important book on civil rights, Murray published two autobiographies and one book of her poetry.
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nAlso on this date:
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nInfrared pioneer William Coblentz’s birthday
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nMathematician Benoit Mandelbrot’s birthday
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nGlobally Organized Hug A Runner Day
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nCountdown to turkey
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nHappy Inventions Day
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nAstronomer Edwin Hubble’s birthday
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nTeachers’ Day in Vietnam
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National Day of Black Consciousness
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National Day of Black Consciousness
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nBirthday of sculptor Alice Aycock
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nPlan ahead:
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nCheck out my Pinterest boards for:
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