TOUR DATES
April 5-7, 2018 @ 7:00 PM
St. Paul's Chapel
Trinity Church Wall Street
New York, NY
April 12-14, 2018 @ 8:00 PM
Pauli Murray College at Yale University
New Haven, CT
April 17, 2018 @ 7:00 PM
Howard University West Campus
Washington, DC
Join Hidden Voices, the Pauli Murray Project, and the Duke Human Rights Center as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of Pauli Murray’s birth with a new play that explores the life and legacy of one of North Carolina’s own.
Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to stand, Pauli Murray refused to sit in the back of the bus; 20 years before the Greensboro sit-ins, she organized restaurant sit-downs in the nation’s capital. Durham native Pauli Murray not only lived on the edge of history, she seemingly “pulled it along with her.”
One hundred twenty-three years after her enslaved grandmother was baptized at Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church in Chapel Hill, Pauli Murray returned as America’s first female African-American Episcopal priest to celebrate her groundbreaking Eucharist there. A lifelong champion for human rights, Pauli Murray’s struggles and insights resonate powerfully in our times. Celebrate her history; create our future.
The play is written by Lynden Harris, directed by Kathryn Hunter-Williams and features Chaunesti Webb and Brie Nash.