Pauli Murray letterpress notebook

Pauli Murray (1910-1985) • civil rights activist, scholar, theorist, lawyer, educator, writer, Episcopal priest • author of States’ Laws on Race and Color, defined as the “bible” of the civil rights movement by Thurgood Marshall • worked to expand legal protection for gender equality • Murray did not fit the expectation of gender norms. She was known to self describe as he/she to family and friends, while using she/her in formal writings. • medium size notebook • cover is letterpress printed with original illustration in dark red ink on manila yellow 100# paper • 56 blank 100% recycled pages • sewn stitched binding on the left in warm red thread • measures 4.125”x6.375 with two rounded corners • packaged in a clear plastic sleeve