Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind RosenbergMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A few months ago, i decided to take a different route home from our local Co-op grocery store. In so doing, i found myself driving past the Pauli Murray Center for History & Social Justice on 906 Carroll St., Durham, NC. Having lived in Durham for 35 years, i have seen the murals of Pauli Murray in various places around town (https://www.paulimurraycenter.com/pauli-murray-murals), but had never bothered to find out who Pauli Murray was. After reading a short bio on the above website, i picked up this biography at our local library. This book is a detailed, extremely well written and extensively documented account of the life of Pauli Murray. Having just completed reading it, i am in awe of the person Pauli Murray. The Center and murals are here in Durham because Pauli grew up in Durham, a graduate of the same high school as our oldest child. As i read their life story, i was awed over and over at the significant accomplishments and adversity overcome by Murray. You can probably get a concise summary of these on Wiki or elsewhere. This is a very moving life story which is engaging from start to finish. Now i understand why Durham NC has so embraced Murray as our own. Murray's life, passions, and accomplishments so aptly capture the spirit of Durham in its diversity, its quest for truth and knowledge, and the progressive spirit of our citizens. Pauli Murray was the incarnation of everything we love about Durham, and it makes me proud to call them our own.
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