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Book Launch: Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist

Join us for a discussion of Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist with the authors in conversation with Professor Melissa Harris-Perry.

Pauli Murray was a queer civil rights and women's rights activist. In Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist, Rosita Stevens-Holsey and Terry Catasús Jennings tell their unique and often unheard story.

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Order your copy from The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, North Carolina here: https://www.regulatorbookshop.com/book/9781499812510

Rosita Stevens-Holsey is one of Pauli Murray's nieces, and an ambassador for the Pauli Murray family. She feels it is an honor to be part of enhancing and promoting her aunt's legacy, and her responsibility as a family member to do so. Rosita lives outside of Washington, D.C.

Terry Catasús Jennings is an essayist and humorist, and a children’s writer. She has written science based narrative non-fiction and educational text. She is the author of the Definitely Dominguita chapter book series which debuted last year and which was named both a School Library Journal and Kirkus, best books of 2021. Terry immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba at age twelve. Terry She lives in Reston, Virginia and is a member of SCBWI, Las Musas Latinx Collective and the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC.

Melissa Harris-Perry is an American writer, professor, television and radio host, and political commentator with a focus on African-American politics. She is the host and managing editor at The Takeaway, a National Public Radio news program focusing on the American conversation.

Ages 10 and up.