Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage

The author recounts her childhood, education, career as a lawyer and poet, and involvement in the Civil Rights and Women's movements Read more From Publishers Weekly The notable career of the late Murrayshe died in 1985descendant of a North Carolina slave and a slave owner, who, as lawyer, teacher, poet, feminist and, lastly, Episcopalian priest, worked for social justice, unfolds in this autobiography.

A pioneer in many areasthe only female in her class at Howard University Law School, the first woman to receive a J.S.D.

from YaleMurray carried on her family tradition of ground-branching paths to civil rights, while as a confidante of and goad to Eleanor Roosevelt, she presaged the activist momentum of the '50s and '60s.