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My thoughts : A book of poems. With an introduction by James E. Shepard.
M. Pauline Fitzgerald, one of Durham’s first African American school teachers, penned this self-published book of poetry. Pauline’s poetry memorializes Frederick Douglass, Dr. H. M. Tupper, founder and first president of Shaw University, and Bishop Daniel Payne of the A.M.E. Church. The collection also includes some more personal pieces including “An Ode to the First Colored Drug Store in Durham, North Carolina” and “The School Mistress.” Pauli Murray, author of Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family relates a number of stories about her “Aunt Pauline” in her biographical account of M. Pauline Fitzgerald’s parents, Robert G. and Cornelia Fitzgerald.

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