{"product_id":"dark-testament-and-other-poems-9781631494833","title":"Dark Testament: And Other Poems","description":"There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in a recent profile in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, the publication of a definitive biography, and a new Yale University college in her name. Murray has been suddenly cited by leading historians as a woman who contributed far more to the civil rights movement than anyone knew, being arrested in 1940--fifteen years before Rosa Parks--for refusing to give up her seat on a Virginia bus. Celebrated by twenty-first-century readers as a civil rights activist on the level of King, Parks, and John Lewis, she is also being rediscovered as a gifted writer of memoir, sermons, and poems. Originally published in 1970 and long unavailable, \u003cem\u003eDark Testament and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e attests to her fierce lyrical powers. At turns song, prayer, and lamentation, Murray's poems speak to the brutal history of slavery and Jim Crow and the dream of racial justice and equality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurray, Pauli:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePauli Murray\u003c\/strong\u003e (1910-1985) was born in Baltimore and raised in Durham, North Carolina. The first African American woman to receive a doctorate of law at Yale, her name now graces one of Yale University's new colleges. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eSong in a Weary Throat\u003c\/em\u003e, her posthumous memoir.","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630435733778,"sku":"9781631494833","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_844ea23c-0614-41c3-800d-7f9eacfd66d8.jpg?v=1732752129","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dark-testament-and-other-poems-9781631494833","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}