The Imp The Dude Crusader
The Imp The Dude Crusader
Born in nineteen ten to Agnes and William
called you Pauline you a gift that God gave them
November twenty hard times you’ll have plenty
who would do what you did not any but plenty
Will benefit from the fights you fought
from the lives you helped and debt that you bought
coming to North Cac, Durham that is
Jim Crow was real and the time that you lived
Would make it hard for this leader to live
wanted to go to U N C thanks N double A C P
For making her fight known but she didn’t get in oh please
Thanks Howard University H B C U right
opening doors like usual but this sister gotta fight
cause she want to go to Harvard but they made it impossible
Cause she was a woman, your stupidity ain’t logical
Why is there so much hate for my race, yall all cowards
you made her famous being ignorant, this is her hour
The Imp The Dude Crusader
The Imp The Dude Crusader Pauli Murray
The Imp The Dude Crusader
The Imp The Dude Crusader Pauli Murray




Look at you Pauli I live in Raleigh
you were in Bull City I got caught in folly
but you were busy always fighting
your life would be a beacon to enlighten
but how about you wrote something amazing what’s the title
gave Thurgood the good in Brown versus Board, the Bible
every law that dealt with race you cataloged
I know Jim Crow and bigots were mad at yall
for bringing real justice and its about that time
Oops I forgot to tell the world you were the first in line
To not give up your seat on the bus you the treasure
my star in the sky, my angel in the desert
HA HA HA its so much to say so much to share
Negroes are fed up getting shot by cops this year
We miss you Pauli racism still lives
but you had to fight sexism in civil rights That’s right sis
So the fight doesn’t end with race
but I can see the battles you fought on that lovely face
The Imp The Dude Crusader
The Imp The Dude Crusader Pauli Murray
The Imp The Dude Crusader
The Imp The Dude Crusader Pauli Murray

Pauli Murray
Don’t you worry
Pauli Murray
Don’t You Worry
Became the first black woman ordained in the episcopal
you still fought battles of sexuality literal
God loves you and the world wasn’t ready
for activist, feminist, lawyer, Priest, Poet man you heavy