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Timeline

1910

20 November – born Anna Pauline Murray in Baltimore MD USA

1928

entered Hunter College, New York City NY USA

1938

December – applied to and refused entry into the University of North Carolina

1940

March – arrested for refusing to sit on the back of a bus in Petersburg, Virginia, in an incident of racial bias

1942

As a friend of Fellowship of Reconciliation Campus Travelers, James L. Farmer and Bayard Rustin she adopted the nonviolent techniques of the new Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) for restaurant sit-ins in Washington, D.C., representing seventeen women who sat-in at restaurants, while she was a law student, at Howard University.

All For Mr. Davis: Odell Waller’s story as told by Pauli Murray and Murray Kempton with a preface by President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina and a statement of the bearing of the poll tax on Waller’s case and on the "right to a fair jury and a free vote" was published by the Workers Defense League and re-published by the League For Adult Education.

1944

received LL.B from Howard University, Washington DC USA
awarded Rosenwald Fellowship but refused entry to Harvard University as a result of gender bias

1945

received LL.M from University of California, Berkeley CA USA
became the first African-American woman to serve as an Assistant Attorney General for the state of California

1946

ran for the New York City Council (Brooklyn), came in second
named Woman of the Year by the National Council of Negro Women

1947

named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle magazine

1950

States' Laws on Race and Color was published by Woman’s Division of Christian Service, Board of Missions of the Methodist Church.

1952

lost a post at Cornell University because her references were considered too radical.
Her references? Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph

1956

hired by Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison, New York City NY USA
October – Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family was published by Harper & Row

1960

traveled to and was a senior lecturer at the Ghana School of Law in Accra, Ghana

1961

appointed to the President's Commission on the Status of Women Committee on Civil and Political Rights
The constitution and government of Ghana by Leslie Rubin and Pauli Murray was published by Sweet & Maxwell, London, England, United Kingdom. A second edition was published in 1964 by Sweet & Maxwell as well as African Universities Press of Lagos, Nigeria.

1965

received J.S.D. from Yale University, New Haven CT USA

1966

co-founded the National Organization for Women (NOW)

1967

served as vice-president and professor of Political Science at Benedict College, Columbia SC USA
Human Rights U. S. A.; 1948-1966. was published by the Cincinnati Service Center, Board of Missions, Methodist Church.

1968

served as a visiting professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University, Waltham MA USA

1970

Dark Testament and Other Poems was published by Silvermine
awarded the Alumni Award for Distinguished Post-Graduate Achievement in Law and Public Service, Howard University, Washington DC USA

1971

awarded the Louis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics and a full professorship of American Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham MA USA
received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award, Professional Women's Caucus

1972

received the Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Award

1973

enshrined in the Hunter College Hall of Fame, Hunter College, New York City NY USA
Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family was re-published by the Reprint Company of Spartanburg SC USA.

1976

received Master of Divinity, General Theological Seminary, New York City NY USA
received honorary degree, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH USA

1977

8 January – ordained as an Episcopal priest, the first African-American woman to do so, at the National Cathedral, Washington DC USA

1978

received honorary degree, Radcliffe College, Cambridge MA USA
Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family was re-published by Harper & Row.

1979

received honorary degree, Yale University, New Haven CT USA

1982

Award for Exemplary Christian Ministry, National Institute for Women of Color

1985

1 July – died of cancer, in Pittsburgh PA USA

1987

Her autobiography, Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage, was published posthumously by Harper & Row

1988

awarded Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage
awarded the Christopher Award for Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage

1989

Pauli Murray: the autobiography of a Black activist, feminist, lawyer, priest, and poet., originally titled Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage, was [re-]published by the University of Tennessee Press.

1990

Orange County, NC USA established the Pauli Murray Human Relations Award to commemorate her life's work,

1997

States' Laws on Race and Color was re-published by the University of Georgia Press.

1999

Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family was re-published by Beacon Press.

2006

Pauli Murray & Caroline Ware: forty years of letters in black and white, edited by Anne Firor Scott, was published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Pauli Murray: selected sermons and writings, edited with an introduction by Anthony B. Pinn, was published by Orbis Books.

References

Publication information verified courtesy of The Library of Congress of the United States.