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Letter from Pauli Murray to Carolyn Wallace, June 23, 1978
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Murray, Pauli
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June 23, 1978
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Murray, Pauli
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Pauli Murray
2702 Dartmouth Road
Alexandria, Va. 22314
June 23, 1978
Dear Carolyn:
My delay in responding to your letters of May 17 and June 7 is no measure of my delight in recalling the steps by which we have arrived at a first-name basis. As indicated in our conversations, on May 15 I think we discovered a profound truth, symbolized by four human beings followed by an inquisitive cow! I shall never forget a sudden transformation to the professional when you walked into the Chancellor’s office and announced the arrival of “Dr. Wallace and Dr. Murray!”
My present tentative schedule is to arrive in North Carolina early in the week of July 10 – July 9 being the day of the march here in Washington on the anniversary date of the death of Dr. Alice Paul, for ERA. Am trying to make it an open-ended visit so that I can gather up the loose ends of research in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Hope you will be around during that period of an estimated ten days to two weeks.
Meanwhile, I have not forgotten your interest in the original Fitzgerald papers as well as the University of North Carolina (1938-39)file, which has now grown to 1978-1979(?). Little-by-little I’m trying to get all the relevant documentation together, and then we shall see. As I explained by letter to “Peaches” Dunlap(I hope she doesn’t mind this familiar reference), it seems wise to hang on to the UNC file until the publication of “Fourth Generation” – but we shall see.
I have heard nothing from the Chancellor’s office about the Smith family gravesite. Could you do a little diplomatic “prodding” before I come?
Enclosed is an item which may be of interest. Please share the program with Ms. Dunlap and call her attention to the amendment(on p. 2) of my biographical sketch from that of March 18, a copy of which I sent her. The amendment is the addition of the words “and greatgranddaughter of a slave owner,” which may amuse her. I didn’t think U. of F. would do it, but they did and this intrigued the press. At least three Florida papers picked it up, including the Associated Press. Perhaps it signals a new level of understanding – “reparations through truth and sense of community” rather than through monetary compensation. What think you?
Cordially,
Pauli +
Pauli Murray
Dr. Carolyn A. Wallace, Director
Southern Historical Collection
Univ. of N.C. at Chapel Hill
27514
P.S. Have you caught up with young Joann Brack yet?
2702 Dartmouth Road
Alexandria, Va. 22314
June 23, 1978
Dear Carolyn:
My delay in responding to your letters of May 17 and June 7 is no measure of my delight in recalling the steps by which we have arrived at a first-name basis. As indicated in our conversations, on May 15 I think we discovered a profound truth, symbolized by four human beings followed by an inquisitive cow! I shall never forget a sudden transformation to the professional when you walked into the Chancellor’s office and announced the arrival of “Dr. Wallace and Dr. Murray!”
My present tentative schedule is to arrive in North Carolina early in the week of July 10 – July 9 being the day of the march here in Washington on the anniversary date of the death of Dr. Alice Paul, for ERA. Am trying to make it an open-ended visit so that I can gather up the loose ends of research in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Hope you will be around during that period of an estimated ten days to two weeks.
Meanwhile, I have not forgotten your interest in the original Fitzgerald papers as well as the University of North Carolina (1938-39)file, which has now grown to 1978-1979(?). Little-by-little I’m trying to get all the relevant documentation together, and then we shall see. As I explained by letter to “Peaches” Dunlap(I hope she doesn’t mind this familiar reference), it seems wise to hang on to the UNC file until the publication of “Fourth Generation” – but we shall see.
I have heard nothing from the Chancellor’s office about the Smith family gravesite. Could you do a little diplomatic “prodding” before I come?
Enclosed is an item which may be of interest. Please share the program with Ms. Dunlap and call her attention to the amendment(on p. 2) of my biographical sketch from that of March 18, a copy of which I sent her. The amendment is the addition of the words “and greatgranddaughter of a slave owner,” which may amuse her. I didn’t think U. of F. would do it, but they did and this intrigued the press. At least three Florida papers picked it up, including the Associated Press. Perhaps it signals a new level of understanding – “reparations through truth and sense of community” rather than through monetary compensation. What think you?
Cordially,
Pauli +
Pauli Murray
Dr. Carolyn A. Wallace, Director
Southern Historical Collection
Univ. of N.C. at Chapel Hill
27514
P.S. Have you caught up with young Joann Brack yet?