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
- Photograph by
- Williams, Milton, American, born 1940
- Subject of
- Rev. Dr. Murray, Pauli, American, 1910 - 1985
- Date
- December 21, 1977
- 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)
- 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.
- Place depicted
- Arlington County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Topic
- Civil rights
- Episcopalian
- Feminism
- Local and regional
- Photography
- Religion
- Social reform
- Women
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Milton Williams Archives
- Object number
- 2011.15.126
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Milton Williams
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.