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Further resources

Writings by Pauli Murray

• Murray, Pauli. Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family. New York: Harper, 1956. https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb1149716
• Murray, Pauli. Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb2139728

Books and Articles

• Battle, Kemp P. History of the University of North Carolina. Raleigh, N.C: Printed for the author by Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1907. https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/battle1/battle1.html
• Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth, “Admitting Pauli Murray,” Journal of Women’s History 14, no. 2 (2002): 62-67.
• Jones, H.G., and David W. Southern. Miss Mary's Money: Fortune and Misfortune in a North Carolina Plantation Family, 1760-1924. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
• Kapur, Geeta. To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation's Oldest Public University. Blair / Carolina Wrenn Press, 2021.
• Rosenberg, Rosalind. Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. Oxford University Press, 2017. https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb8821309
• Saxby, Troy R. Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life. UNC Press, 2020. https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb10527142
• Smith, Kim. Book of Harriet: The Disambiguation of Five North Carolinian Siblings 1840-1941. Duke University, Master’s thesis, 2016. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/11964.

Archives and Manuscripts

• McKissick v. Carmichael, 187 F.2d 949, 950 (4th Cir. 1951)
• Murray, Pauli, and Genna R. McNeil. Oral History Interview with Pauli Murray, February 13, 1976: Interview G-0044, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Chapel Hill, N.C.: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007. G-0044 :: Southern Oral History Program Interview Database (unc.edu)
• Mary Ruffin Smith Papers, #3879, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Online Resources

• "Lawsuits.” Law School First-The African Americans Who Integrated UNC-Chapel Hill. https://integration.law.unc.edu/lawsuits/. Accessed 7 April 2022.
• "Pauli Murray Hall: UNC’s Departments of History, Political Science, and Sociology and the Curriculum on Peace, War, and Defense begin the renaming of Hamilton Hall." UNC-Chapel Hill College of Arts and Sciences. https://history.unc.edu/2020/07/pauli-murray-hall-uncs-departments-of-history-political-science-and-sociology-and-the-curriculum-on-peace-war-and-defense-begin-the-renaming-of-hamilton-hall/. Accessed 14 July 2023.
• “Smith-Gattis House.” Open Orange, https://openorangenc.org/buildings/smith-gattis-house.
• “Who is Pauli Murray?” Pauli Murray Center. https://www.paulimurraycenter.com/who-is-pauli. Accessed 7 April 2022.