Tell Us What You Think
We welcome your feedback about our Pauli Murray Project events and initiatives. We are interested in your experiences, comments, questions, and concerns. Please Tell Us What You Think.
We welcome your feedback about our Pauli Murray Project events and initiatives. We are interested in your experiences, comments, questions, and concerns. Please Tell Us What You Think.
I wanted to let you know that my local chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, an international society of women educators, discussed the book, Proud Shoes, at our meeting last night here in Durham. We were struck by the historic and racial crosscurrents in Pauli’s past, her detailed, insightful research into family members and places, and her inspiring reflections. We are very glad her home at 906 Carroll Street in Durham is slated for preservation. I personally look forward to locating the Fitzgerald cemetery plot in/near Maplewood Cemetery.
Several of our chapter members also attended the Hidden Voices production of “To Buy the Sun” – a wonderful portrayal of Pauli’s personality, aspirations and challenges.
Thank you for nurturing the legacy of social justice, community building, and interdisciplinary studies in Durham through the Pauli Murray Project.
Geraldine Larson
Delta Gamma Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma
My address: 426 Patterson Road, Durham, NC 27704
I wanted to let you know that my local chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, an international society of women educators, enjoyed discussing Proud Shoes at our meeting here in Durham last night. We were struck by the historic and racial crosscurrents in Pauli’s past, her insightful, detailed research on family members and places, and her eloquent, inspirational reflection. We are glad to read that Pauli’s home, 906 Carroll St. in Durham, is slated for preservation. I personally look forward to locating the Fitzgerald cemetery plot in/near? Maplewood Cemetery.
Several of our chapter members also attended the Hidden Voices production of “To Buy the Sun” – a wonderful portrayal of Pauli’s personality, aspirations and challenges.
Thank you for the legacy of social justice, community building, and interdisciplinary studies that you are nurturing in Durham through the Pauli Murray Project.
Geraldine Larson
Delta Gamma Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma
My address: 426 Patterson Road, Durham, NC 27704
Would someone be able to given an interview on Pauli Murray and the positive impact to the Church of ordaining African American women? I am so appreciative of your work and so inspired by the legacy of Rev. Murray!
To add to my previous comments. I’ve talked to friends about the country about To Buy The Sun in some detail. Their comments included … they wished this drama would at least be presented in Washington D.C. … a wish it would go on the road.
I just saw the performance at the Artscenter. Phenomenal!
Will this be shown at UNC, Chapel Hill? I’d be happy to publicize it.
We saw “To Buy the Sun Friday” 2/4/11 at the Carrboro Arts Center. The performance was an amazing learning experience and an exceptional theater performance by Brie Nash and Chaunesti Webb Lyon. The spirit of the characters came alive. Brie was Pauli. Pauli was in her heart and soul. And Chaunesti moved with ease in changing characters and giving a first rate performance as well. I wrote a letter this morning to a friend, who is a professor of the arts at Anderson University (IN) to tell him of the performance & suggest it be done there. I’m mailing him the program and the contact information for the Pauli Murray project. Thanks so much for an inspiring program and all you do. BTW as a person with a hearing disability, your chronology hand out proved to be extremely helpful to me in following the performance. Thanks!
I saw the play To Buy the Sun last night and was more than impressed. The actors and script were outstanding. Having just received my Ph.D. in history from UNC-Chapel Hill with a specialty in the civil rights movement, I thought the play grasped major events and figures of the black freedom struggle sooo well, and it made me want to know more about Pauli Murray. Thank you for a brilliant production — one of the best plays I have ever seen. I really hope that this production expands beyond 4 performances and that other communities around the country will put on this play. Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, a playwright at Mixed Magic Theater, in Rhode Island may be interested. You can use me as a reference — I talked with him as part of the Civil Rights History Project.
Saw the play at Hayti! Unbelievably wonderful! So well written and so well done! I read Murray’s autobiography years ago. Yesterday I really did get to know Pauli Murray better! This play has to travel! How can we make this happen!?
I saw the play To Buy the Sun last night and thought it was very well done. The actors were excellent. It was emotionally affecting.
Just a few suggestions to make it better: 1) tighten and shorten by 30-45 minutes; not every incident in her life needs to be referenced; select representative ones to focus on 2) sometimes hard to distinguish all the characters 3) hard to read/ see the projected images; the light from the projector should be brighter; projecting on the bulletin boards interfered with clarity
Thanks for a good first go round!
I can’t figure out where the exhibit and discussion on November 3 will be held. The event listed just before it seems to be at the Franklin Center, but where is the panel discussion, Pauli Murray vs. UNC: Wrestling with Change in the Jim Crow South?