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Ahmed, Siraj. "Murray, Pauli." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Gale. 2006. HighBeam Research. 24 Sep. 2015 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
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During the course of a remarkably diverse life, lawyer, poet, and minister Pauli Murray was a pioneer among African Americans and women in a number of fields. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Her postsecondary education spanned six decades, beginning at Hunter College (B.A., 1933); continuing at Howard University Law School (LL.B., 1944); the University of California, Berkeley (LL.M., 1945), and Yale Law School, where in 1965 she became the first African American to receive the degree of doctor of juridical science. Her education culminated in 1976 at General Theological Seminary in New York, where, as the only African-American female enrolled, she received the master of divinity degree. …
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