Pauli Murray Roots & Soul Mural, Durham NC
credit: Brett Cook & Pauli Murray Project
Pauli Murray, first African American woman to attend Howard U. School of Law and later a vestry member of Emmanuel, received her J.D.. For its sesquicentennial Howard is hosting a TEDx conference on 9/15/1917: Singing of a New American”: Pauli Murray’s Legacy and Justice in the 21st Century.
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20 Nov. Anna Pauline Murray was born in Baltimore MD. Pauli (as she became known) was to become a famous civil-rights lawyer, a member of our vestry, our postulant for Holy Orders, and a saint of The Episcopal Church. For details of her many accomplishments, please see our guide to resources about her.
Thanks to the late Craig Smith for this image of Priscilla as a girl, c1915.
7 May. Benefactor of our cantata program, Priscilla Rawson (Young) was born in Bayside, NYC to Clementine Herschel of Holyoke MA & Hobart Rawson of Cincinnati OH. She was named for her Mayflower ancestor Priscilla Mullins Alden, who in turn was the namesake of Priscilla, now thought to have been the amanuensis of Paul the Apostle and author of the Epistle to the Hebrews [1]. See also 1939, 1942, 1971, 1973, 1994 & 2000.
Charlotte Spaulding (Mrs. Ernest) Jacoby, c. 1907. Photo credit: Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Parishioner Ernest Jacoby started a group for alcoholic men with special emphasis on fellowship as a path to recovery. It eventually moved from our basement and continued into the 1930s as the Jacoby Club. The first meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous in Boston was held in 1940 at the Club, then at 115 Newbury Street. Papers of the Club are archived at the Mass. Historical Society.
Entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1. Ruth Hoppin, Priscilla’s Letter: Finding the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Ft. Bragg CA: Lost Coast Press, 2000.
