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Dark testament : and other poems
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- "Here at last is Pauli Murray's powerful poem, 'Dark Testament,' and forty-nine other of her poems, collected between two covers. Virtually hidden for 22 years while its author pursued her destiny as a civil rights and women's rights champion and, at the same time as an attorney and professor of law, 'Dark Testament' speaks so eloquently of the plight of black Americans that it might have been composed yesterday. Dr. Murray won her badge of honor as a civil rights activist in the Forties -- long before the Freedom Rides -- when she was arrested and jailed in the South for refusing to be segregated and when she led student sit-ins in all-white restaurants in the nation's capital. As a poet she was a protegé of Stephen Vincent Benét and was encouraged by Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Lillian Smith, and many others. The title poem of this volume inspired Morris Milgram, who wrote the introduction, to start a career of developing genuinely integrated housing. Now over 13,000 people live in open housing owned or built by firms Milgram organized; and this might never have begun but for Pauli Murray's 'Dark Testament,' which taught Milgram that the ghetto perpetuates black unfreedom"--From back of dust jacket.
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