Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray Esq. (1910-1985), civil rights lawyer and Episcopal priest was an activist who fought to dismantle segregation and end discrimination through the courts and on the streets
Object Details
- Photograph by
- Milton Williams, American, born 1940
- Subject of
- Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, American, 1910 - 1985
- Caption
- Attorney, author, scholar, and Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray, the first black female Episcopal Church deacon. In January of 1977, she was ordained as the first black female Episcopal priest. She is pictured here in her study in her Arlington, Virginia apartment. December 22, 1976.
- Milton Williams, Moments in Time, 1973-1993 (Nashville: James C. Winston Publishing Co., 1996), 110.
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of the Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray sitting at a typewriter by a desk crowded with papers. The photograph is stamped and inscribed on the back.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Milton Williams Archives
- December 21, 1977
- Object number
- 2011.15.126
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Milton Williams
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 7 1/4 × 9 9/16 in. (18.4 × 24.3 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 7 15/16 × 10 3/16 in. (20.2 × 25.9 cm)
- Place depicted
- Arlington County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Civil Rights
- Episcopalian
- Feminism
- Local and regional
- Photography
- Religion
- Social reform
- Women
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2011.15.126
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd53efe9488-1016-4d01-8468-2e722164b782
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