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The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Audiobook
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This is the riveting history of how Pauli Murray—a brilliant writer-turned-activist—and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America.
In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old Pauli Murray wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, protesting racial segregation in the South. Eleanor wrote back. So began a friendship that would last for a quarter of a century, as Pauli became a lawyer, principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a co-founder of the National Organization of Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat and first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
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“Bell-Scott meticulously chronicles Eleanor Roosevelt’s and Pauli Murray’s boundary-breaking friendship, telling each remarkable woman’s story within the context of the crises of the times…Sharply detailed and profoundly illuminating.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“Tremendous…Twenty years in the making.”
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“The ‘Firebrand’ is someone whose inspiration is sorely needed—and not only by Black women.”
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“A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt.”
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“Masterful.”
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“An absorbing historical page-turner…Bell-Scott brilliantly shows that the friendship equally enriched both women.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
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Longlisted for the National Book Award
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A Booklist Best Book of the Year
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Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
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A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016
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One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2016
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Nominated for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Award
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About Patricia Bell-Scott
Patricia Bell-Scott is professor emerita of women’s studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia. Her previous books include Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters, which won the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize.
About Karen Chilton
Karen Chilton is a New York–based actor and writer and an accomplished voice-over artist and narrator. She has narrated dozens of audiobooks, won three AudioFile Earphones Awards, and in 2020 won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narration. Her voice can be heard on numerous national network television, radio, and Internet advertising campaigns.