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Mary Elizabeth Murphy (April 13, 1894 – July 27, 1964), known as "The Queen of Baseball", was the first woman to play professional baseball, competing with male athletes in 1922. She played baseball for seventeen years as a first baseman; she also played on several all-star teams and was the first person of either sex to play on both American ...
Jul 24, 2020 · Perspective by Mary-Elizabeth Murphy. Mary-Elizabeth Murphy is an associate professor of history at Eastern Michigan University and author of "Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom...
Murphy shows how black women in the nation’s capital, despite lacking the ballot, waged local and national campaigns for political rights, economic justice, and an end to race-based violence.
Sep 26, 2018 · Today we welcome a guest post from Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy, author of Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920–1945, which UNC Press will publish in November. In her new book, Murphy tells the story of how African American women in D.C. transformed civil rights politics in their freedom struggles between ...
Associate Professor of History Mary-Elizabeth Murphy has published her first book, Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920–1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018). In this book, Dr. Murphy tells the story of how African American women in D.C. transformed civil rights politics in their freedom ...
By Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2018) 280 pp. $90.00 cloth $29.95 paper. In Jim Crow Capital, Murphy fuses social history's fine-grained examinations with political history's grand narratives.
Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy. Department of History and Politics Drexel University 5025 MacAlister Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104. EDUCATION. 721 Walnut Street, Apt. 200 Philadelphia, PA 19106. T 410-790-7235. mbm82@drexel.edu. Ph.D. History, University of Maryland, College Park, Spring 2012. FIELDS. African American History.
