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An important, groundbreaking book - 2 decades in work - that instructs the storyplot of the unlikely but history-changing 28-calendar year bond forged between Pauli Murray (granddaughter of a mulatto slave who, against all possibilities, as a lesbian black woman, became a lawyer, civil protection under the law pioneer, Episcopal priest, poet, and activist) and Eleanor Roosevelt (first woman of the United States from 1933 to 1948 and human protection under the law internationalist) that critically molded Eleanor Roosevelt's, and therefore FDR's, view of race and racism in America. It had been a decades-long friendship - sensitive, moving, prodding, motivating - sustained primarily through correspondence and seen as a brutal honesty, mutual admiration, and admiration, uncovering the generational and politics differences each needed to overcome in order to support one another's life. Of the two extraordinary women, one was at the guts of world electricity, the other an outsider ostracized for the color of her skin area, fighting with heart, spirit, and intellect to push the world forwards (she did!) also to become the figure for change she understood she was designed to be. Both were alike in many ways: shedding both parents as children, being reared by older kin; each was a dedicated Episcopalian with an abiding compassion for the helpless; each was possessed of boundless energy and fortitude yet vunerable to low spirits and stress and anxiety; each was at a struggle against shyness, understanding how to be outspoken; each was at her best when employed in significant, important work. And each in her own culture was sidelined as a woman and motivated to upend the centuries-old communal constriction.... A riveting portrait that presents how their friendship deepened and endured in the face of enormous social obstacles and which makes clear how Pauli Murray, foremother of the modern-day black and feminist activities, crucially inspired Eleanor Roosevelt's progressive position on civil and human protection under the law, challenging her to have a stand for justice and independence ("If a few of our claims are bitter nowadays," Pauli Murray composed to Eleanor Roosevelt in a postscript from a 1942 letter, "you must remember that truth is our only sword"). That is a book that uncovers as well the serious impact of Eleanor Roosevelt's friendship on the shape of Murray's life as an activist, a lawyer, cofounder of the National Organization for Women, the main strategist in the struggle to preserve Name VII of the 1964 Civil Protection under the law Work, and the first DARK-COLORED woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.
