Durham, NC - The Durham City Council will honor Pauli Murray and her outstanding contributions to civil and human rights activism, the law, the arts and Durham history through a proclamation at their Monday, November 16 regular meeting. In recognition of the 99^th anniversary of her birth, Nov. 10, 1910, this proclamation recognize one of the city's greatest, but unsung citizens.

The proclamation will also encourage residents to attend several events being planned by the Pauli Murray Project. The Pauli Murray Lecture by Beverly Guy-Sheftall, founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center, is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. and the Pauli Murray Birthday Party is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 22, from 3-5 p.m.

Both events will be held at the Community, Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park, 1313 Halley Street in Durham's West End neighborhood, a few blocks from Murray's childhood home.

The Pauli Murray Project, a new initiative of the Duke Hunan Rights Center, is poised to examine our history as a way of strengthening ties among our Durham communities. The Project uses dialogue, education, storytelling and historical research to enrich our understanding of the past and use it to seek social justice. As a historian, poet, lawyer and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray's legacy provides inspiration to this work.

The Pauli Murray Project is supported by the Andrus Family Fund and the North Carolina Humanities Council.