And each in her own society sidelined as a woman, and determined to upend the centuries-old social constriction.
Of the two extraordinary women, one was at the center of world power the other, an outsider ostracized by the color of her skin, fighting with heart, soul, and intellect to push the world forward (she did!) and to become the figure for change she knew she was meant to be each alike in many ways: losing both parents as children, being reared by elderly kin each a devoted Episcopalian with an abiding compassion for the helpless each possessed of boundless energy and fortitude yet susceptible to low spirits and anxiety each in a battle against shyness, learning to be outspoken each at her best when engaged in meaningful, important work. It was a decades-long friendship-tender, moving, prodding, inspiring-sustained primarily through correspondence and characterized by brutal honesty, mutual admiration, and respect, revealing the generational and political differences each had to overcome in order to support one another's life. An important, groundbreaking book-two decades in work-that tells the story of the unlikely but history-changing twenty-eight-year bond forged between Pauli Murray (granddaughter of a mulatto slave, who, against all odds, as a lesbian black woman, became a lawyer, civil rights pioneer, Episcopal priest, poet, and activist) and Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1948 and human rights internationalist) that critically shaped Eleanor Roosevelt's, and therefore FDR's, view of race and racism in America.
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