The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice (76 page)

One especially meaningful
: Clarence Hunter, “Panel Hears How South Harassed Rights Groups,”
Washington Evening Star
, May 26, 1962.

58. “WOULD YOU PLEASE BRING ME A GLASS OF LEMONADE?”

Pauli Murray was
: PM to ER, June 26, 1962, ERP, and PM,
Song
, 350.

A few days before
: Lash,
A World of Love
, 549–50.

Most of the youths
: See Floyd Patterson with Milton Gross,
Victory over Myself
(New York: Bernard Geis, 1962), 24, and Claude Brown,
Manchild in the Promised Land
(New York: Macmillan, 1965), ii, vi, 79–80, for their remembrances of Wiltwyck and Eleanor Roosevelt.

ER’s friend Harry Belafonte
: Belafonte,
My Song
, 194.

Like all the boys
: For photographs of the Val-Kill picnics ER hosted for the Wiltwyck boys, as well as accounts of these events, see Lash,
Eleanor: The Years Alone
, 307; A. David Gurewitsch,
Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Day
, 74–79; and Eleanor Roosevelt II,
With Love, Aunt Eleanor
, 128–29.

She loved these
: Lash,
A World of Love
, 549–50.

The magician John Mulholland
: ER, “My Day,” July 13, 1962.

“in her car”
: PM to Maureen [Corr], September 9, 1968, ERP.

Joining Murray
: PM,
Song
, 350.

“a swarm of children”
: PM to Maureen [Corr], September 9, 1968.

“Pauli, if you are going”
: PM,
Song
, 350.

“personal favor”
: Ibid.

“overjoyed”
: PM to Maureen [Corr], September 9, 1968.

“felt close enough”
: PM,
Song
, 350.

Unaware that ER
: Lash,
Eleanor: The Years Alone
, 324.

“had the privilege”
: PM to Maureen [Corr], September 9, 1968.

“to touch her”
: Ibid.

“felt like the fat lady”
: Ibid.

“slightly stooped”
: Ibid.

59. “WE SHALL BE WORKING DOUBLY HARD TO CARRY ON”

“a great light”
: PM,
Song
, 351.

On August 3, 1962
: Lerner, “Revisiting the Death of Eleanor Roosevelt,”
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
, 1081. For ER’s account of her hospitalization, see ER, “My Day,” August 13, 1962.

“all the new friends”
: Memorandum, PM to All the New Friends of Kwaku Baah, August 8, 1962, ERP.

“Did anybody ever”
: PM to ER, August 7, 1962, ERP.

“My uncle”
: ER to PM, August 29, 1962, PMP.

“had a miserable”
: Ibid.

She continued
: See ER, “My Day,” August 6, 1962; September 12, 1962; September 26, 1962; September 3, 1962; September 14, 1962; and September 7, 1962.

“Staying aloof”
: ER,
Tomorrow Is Now
(New York: Harper & Row, 1963), 19.

“clouds the judgment”
: Ibid., 25.

Nonetheless, she stayed
: Lash,
Eleanor: The Years Alone
, 325–26, and ER, “My Day,” August 15, 20, and 22, 1962.

ER was hospitalized again
: Lerner, “Revisiting the Death of Eleanor Roosevelt,”
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
, 1081–82.

“A Proposal to Reexamine”
: PM, “A Proposal to Reexamine the Applicability of the Fourteenth Amendment to State Laws and Practices Which Discriminate on the Basis of Sex Per Se,” December 1962, PMP.

ER had once opposed
: ER, “My Day,” August 12, 1937; June 1, 1946; November 18, 1946; February 2, 1950; and June 7, 1951.

“The important thing”
: PM to ER, October 2, 1962, ERP.

“Mrs. Roosevelt is still”
: Maureen Corr to PM, October 10, 1962, FDRL.

Murray, introduced
: “Life of Wife of Astronaut Is Recounted,”
NYT
, October 12, 1962.

“Grace Under Pressure”
: PM, “Grace Under Pressure” (address, All-Women Conference, National Council of Women of the United States, October 11, 1962), attached to PM to ER, October 12, 1962, ERP.

“Dear Mrs. Roosevelt”
: PM to ER, October 12, 1962, ERP.

“stretcher-borne”
: Lash,
Eleanor: The Years Alone
, 330.

The autopsy and later reevaluation
: Lerner, “Revisiting the Death of Eleanor Roosevelt,”
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
, 1082–83.

“It is just so difficult”
: PM to Maureen Corr, November 4, 1962, FDRL.

“kept a private vigil”
: PM,
Song
, 351.

“example of doing”
: Ibid.

On November 7, 1962
: For the statement ER’s physicians issued after her death, see Henry Grossman, “Mrs. Roosevelt Dies at 78 After Illness of Six Weeks,”
NYT
, November 8, 1962.

“One of the great ladies”
: Ibid.

“Her life was one”
: Martin Luther King Jr. to Roosevelt Family, November 8, 1962, ERP.

“We Have Lost”
: “We Have Lost a Great Friend,”
Baltimore AA
, November 10, 1962.

“A hushed silence fell”
: Ernestine Cofield, “Mrs. Roosevelt Loved by All,”
Chicago Defender
, November 10, 1962.

“low-hanging dark clouds”
: PM,
Song
, 351.

“In the death”
: Milton Bracker, “Burial in Hyde Park Garden Next to Grave of Husband: 3 Presidents at Mrs. Roosevelt’s Rites,”
NYT
, November 11, 1962.

60. “MRS. ROOSEVELT’S SPIRIT MARCHES ON”

Pauli Murray was among
: PM,
Song
, 353–54; Dorothy I. Height, “ ‘We Wanted the Voice of a Woman to Be Heard’: Black Women and the 1963 March on Washington,” in
Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights–Black Power Movement
, ed. Bettye Collier-Thomas and V. P. Franklin (New York: New York University Press, 2001), 83–91; and Lynne Olson,
Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
(New York: Scribner, 2001), 283–90.

“fell in line”
: PM,
Song
, 354.

A week before
: Anna Arnold Hedgeman,
The Trumpet Sounds: A Memoir of Negro Leadership
(New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964), 178–80.

“The men seemed”
: Height, “ ‘We Wanted the Voice of a Woman to Be Heard,’ ” in
Sisters in the Struggle
, 86.

“She’s not speaking”
: Ibid., 87.

Women reporters, barred
: “Newswomen Hit Press Club ‘Bias,’ ”
Washington Post, Times Herald
, August, 22, 1963.

“As one who”
: PM, “Letters to the Editor: Discrimination,”
Washington Post, Times Herald
, August 24, 1963.

“It seems appropriate”
: Ibid.

“the utilization”
: “March Chief Answers Press Club,”
Washington Post, Times Herald
, August 26, 1963.

“the fact that”
: Ibid.

They added
: PM,
Song
, 353; Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins
, Rosa Parks: My Story
(New York: Dial, 1992), 165–66; and Hedgeman,
The Trumpet Sound
s, 178–80.

Randolph honored
: “Six to Be Honored,”
Washington Post, Times Herald
, August 28, 1963. Those mentioned were Rosa Parks; Daisy Bates; Diane Nash Bevels, field secretary, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; Myrlie Evers, widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers; Gloria Richardson, chair, Cambridge, Maryland, Non-Violent Action Committee; and the widow of Herbert Lee, a Mississippi farmer and father of nine who was shot and killed in retaliation for his voter registration work with SNCC.

Some of the women
: See Hedgeman,
The Trumpet Sounds
, 180; Dorothy Height,
Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir
(New York: Random House, 2003), 145–46, and Parks,
My Story
, 165–66, on their feelings about the treatment of women.

“What you may not know”
: PM to Mary Ransom Hunter, September 25, 1963, PMP.

“It was bitterly”
: Sue Cronk, “Women Given a Backseat,”
Washington Post, Times Herald
, November 16, 1963.

“secondary, ornamental roles”
: Ibid.

The assertion
: Ibid.

“All Negroes”
: Ibid.

“no sign of remorse”
: Height, “ ‘We Wanted the Voice of a Woman to Be Heard,’ ” in
Sisters in the Struggle
, 88.

“take a hard look”
: Ibid.

“that women’s rights were”
: PM to Bayard Rustin, September 9, 1970, PMP.

Her indignation
: Bayard Rustin to PM, September 17, 1971, and PM to Bayard Rustin, September 19, 1971.

“never in this life”
: Springer-Kemp, interview by author.

This disagreement resulted
: Richards,
Maida Springer
, 263–64, and Springer-Kemp, interview by author.

“that human rights are”
: PM to Mary Ransom Hunter, September 25, 1963.

House conservatives
: For a discussion of the debate and political maneuvers related to the inclusion of Title VII in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, see Jo Freeman, “How ‘Sex’ Got into Title VII: Persistent Opportunism as a Maker of Public Policy,” in
We Will Be Heard: Women’s Struggles for Political Power in the United States
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), 171–90.

In any case, Murray
: PM,
Song
, 355–58.

“there were few”
: PM, “Memorandum in Support of Retaining the Amendment to H.R. 7152. Title VII (Equal Employment Opportunity) to Prohibit Discrimination in Employment Because of Sex,” 1964, PMP.