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Review of Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family published in Charlotte News
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Charlotte News
Date
November 17, 1956
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Books Noticed In Passing
PROUD SHOES. By Pauli Murray. Harper. 276 pp. $3.50.
A fascinating history and biography tells of an unusual family which counts among its forebears slave-owning aristocratic Southerners, Cherokee Indians, free-born Yankee Negroes and Irish antecedents. The author tells the story of her family from the Civil War up to the present a family who through the years held a tremendous pride in themselves and their ancestry and possessed a stubbornness that refused to let them bow down in the face of adversities. Pride is intermingled with passion in the love of two brothers of a noble family for one woman, and that pride carries their descendents through years of struggle to become teachers,
serve their country in war and know the bitter taste of frustration and defeat, yet never give up.
A major part of the story takes place in Durham where Pauli Murray lived as a child with her grandparents. It is their story and the story of their people that she tells so well in"Proud Shoes.”
PROUD SHOES. By Pauli Murray. Harper. 276 pp. $3.50.
A fascinating history and biography tells of an unusual family which counts among its forebears slave-owning aristocratic Southerners, Cherokee Indians, free-born Yankee Negroes and Irish antecedents. The author tells the story of her family from the Civil War up to the present a family who through the years held a tremendous pride in themselves and their ancestry and possessed a stubbornness that refused to let them bow down in the face of adversities. Pride is intermingled with passion in the love of two brothers of a noble family for one woman, and that pride carries their descendents through years of struggle to become teachers,
serve their country in war and know the bitter taste of frustration and defeat, yet never give up.
A major part of the story takes place in Durham where Pauli Murray lived as a child with her grandparents. It is their story and the story of their people that she tells so well in"Proud Shoes.”