Patricia Bell-Scott

Author, THE FIREBRAND AND THE FIRST LADY, Consulting Producer, MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY, Professor Emerita, University of Georgia

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

59 years ago today, Pauli Murray walked with niece Bonnie Fearing Alexis and Howard Univ alum Patricia Harris Roberts in the March on Washington. Upon reaching the Lincoln Memorial, Murray turned around to march again with the delegation from St. Mark’s Church-in-the Bowery.

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

On July 1, the Episcopal Church honors the life and legacy of The Rev Dr Pauli Murray, its first African American queer saint. Murray’s words and deeds are awe-inspiring. Check out Murray's memoirs, SONG IN A WEARY THROAT and PROUD SHOES. And see the film MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

The Pauli Murray Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. I salute the Center. I'm also remembering that this month marks the anniversary of Murray's graduation from law school at Howard University (1944) and Yale (1965). Murray's legacy is the embodiment of PRIDE.

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

Much thanks for this reminder of Lillian Smith's and Paula Snelling's support of Pauli Murray. This payment meant so much to Murray, then a Howard Univ School of Law student, NAACP youth activist, and totally self-supporting. They nurtured Murray's creative writing.

[Lillian E. Smith Center @LES_Center]

Looking at ledgers at LES Center, and found where Lil and Paula paid Pauli Murray to publish “Dark Testament” in South Today in 1944. @KeriLeighMerrit

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

@LES_Center @KeriLeighMerrit @FilmmakerJulie @Betsywest @Notingshaw Much thanks for this reminder of Lillian Smith's and Paula Snelling's support of Pauli Murray. This payment meant so much to Murray, then a Howard Univ School of Law student, NAACP youth activist, and totally self-supporting. They nurtured Murray's creative writing.

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

So proud that "My Name is Pauli Murray" has received a Peabody Award." @PeabodyAwards on #Vimeo https://t.co/oNi0Vux4aL

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

The Lillian E. Smith Center has launched a professional development program for educators, which highlights the civil rights movement. This is precisely the kind of effort Smith began in the 1920s. Contact the Center for more information.

[Lillian E. Smith Center @LES_Center]

There's still time for P-12 educators to apply for "The Civil Rights Movement in Northeast Georgia." Each participant gets a copy of @repjohnlewis @el__fury @andrewaydin @Nate_Powell_Art "Run" and the Lillian Smith Reader.

Find out more at https://t.co/x0pY0X2OOj

[Lillian E. Smith Center @LES_Center]

There's still time for P-12 educators to apply for "The Civil Rights Movement in Northeast Georgia." Each participant gets a copy of @repjohnlewis @el__fury @andrewaydin @Nate_Powell_Art "Run" and the Lillian Smith Reader.

Find out more at https://t.co/x0pY0X2OOj

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

It is our duty, said Pauli Murray, to carry the “pioneering tradition of the valiant women who have gone before.” Murray claimed white human rights activist-writer Lillian Smith as one such woman. Smith’s homeplace was just placed on Georgia’s Historic Civil Right Trail.

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

Today is the 128th birthday of the bodacious blues singer & jazz artist Bessie Smith, with whom I share the birthplace of Chattanooga, TN. Of her style, she said, "I don't want no drummer. I set my own tempo." And she certainly did.

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

For me, it was special to hear Dean Danielle Holley-Walker of Howard University Law School--an institution at the forefront of training African American lawyers, including the trailblazer Pauli Murray--speak about the significance of Judge Brown's confirmation.

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

"We have to remember that only 70 Black women in the history of the United States have ever served in the Federal Judiciary. This isn't just about one Supreme Court seat," Dean and Professor of Howard University Law School Danielle Holley-Walker says.
https://t.co/u9Ju3TFj87

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

It’s been 51 years since the groundbreaking human rights lawyer Pauli Murray wrote to Pres Nixon to say that she was ready and available should he wish to appoint a woman to the U.S. Supreme Court. Yesterday Judge Kentanji Jackson Brown's confirmation fulfilled Murray’s dream.

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

In the 1940s, Pauli Murray’s leadership of the NAACP Youth Conference and the Howard University campus chapter of the NAACP laid the blueprint for generations to come. It warms my heart that the documentary MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY is a nominee for an NAACP Image Award.

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

I grinned like a Cheshire cat when Betsy West and Talleah Bridges McMahon accepted the Silver Baton for MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY at the duPont-Columbia awards ceremony. And the after-party chat with Mike Murray put icing on the cake!

[Betsy West @Betsywest]

Hats off to the #duPont2022 team who arranged a kooky but fun way to connect people after last night's wonderful awards. Here are @FilmmakerJulie @PBell_Scott and me talking to #PauliMurray's nephew @MikeMurrayMKM after MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY won a silver baton!

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

Ready and available, Pauli Murray wrote to Pres Nixon in 1971 when there was a vacancy on the Supreme Court. Murray got no consideration but left an imprint on the law that touches every American today. Learn the story in the documentary MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY on Prime Video.

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

@efweiss5 @blkwomenstudies @ABWHTruth @LES_Center @PauliMurrayCntr @howardlawschool @NAACP_LDF @officialNWHA @BlackPastOnline @ncnaacp @sohumstudios Absolutely and many more.

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

In honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr, we must also shine the light on Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lillian Smith, Diane Nash, Rosa Parks, Daisy Bates, Maida Springer-Kemp & Dovie Johnson Roundtree--whose activism was vital to King and the civil rights movement.

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

The transformative power of writing is on full display in THE SENTENCES THAT CREATE US edited by edited by Caits Meissner, Director, Prison and Justice Writing. Check it out!

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

On Jan 8, 1977, Pauli Murray became an Episcopal priest. “My ordination as a Negro woman priest comes some 172 years after the first Afro-American male priest was ordained in 1804," Murray said. “The Holy Spirit . .
moves slowly at times, but it does move.” Photo,Milton Williams

[Patricia Bell-Scott @PBell_Scott]

@ShorterPearson I am so very sorry for your loss.