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F.H.M. MURRAY: RADICAL OF THE COLOR LINE — BEYOND EMANCIPATION

A fearless reformer. A masterful intellect. A legacy reborn.

Before Martin Luther King Jr., before the Civil Rights Movement, Freeman Henry Morris Murray (1859–1950) was already waging war against America’s racial hypocrisy. An artist, scholar, educator, and journalist, Murray co-founded the Niagara Movement alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, setting the moral and intellectual groundwork for what would become the NAACP. Yet history nearly erased him.

In this definitive work, historian Anita Hackley Lambert reclaims Murray’s story from obscurity. Drawing on rare letters, government records, and family archives, she reveals a man who defied segregation inside the federal government, used his pen as a weapon for justice, and envisioned an emancipation that transcended laws to liberate hearts and minds.

F.H.M. Murray: Radical of the Color Line — Beyond Emancipation is more than biography—it is the resurrection of a voice silenced for a century, calling readers to remember that freedom is never finished work.