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Patricia Bell-Scott

Biography

Patricia Bell-Scott

Patricia Bell-Scott is professor emerita of women’s studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia. Her previous books include LIFE NOTES: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women, FLAT-FOOTED TRUTHS: Telling Black Women’s Lives, and DOUBLE STICTCH: Black Women Write About Mothers & Daughters, which won the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, Charles V. Underwood Jr.

Patricia Bell-Scott

Books by Patricia Bell-Scott

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
by Patricia Bell-Scott - History, Nonfiction, Politics

In 1938, 28-year-old Pauli Murray wrote a letter to the President and First Lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, protesting racial segregation in the South. Eleanor wrote back. So began a friendship that would last for a quarter of a century, as Pauli became a lawyer, principal strategist in the fight to protect Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a co-founder of the National Organization of Women, and Eleanor became a diplomat and first chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.