Happy National Dog Day!

🐾 Check out this sweet photo of Pauli Murray with furry companion, Doc! In Song in a Weary Throat, Pauli writes about adopting Doc: "Smokey, my constant companion for thirteen years, had died of a heart ailment in January, and I had brought home from the dog pound a replacement I alternately called Doc and Black-and-White-Together-We-Shall-Overcome, in recognition of his spectacular black-and-white markings. Doc, a large floppy-eared mixed breed, with a clumsy gait and traces of Saint Bernard ancestry, seemed to realize I had saved his life and showed his gratitude by being a fiercely protective watchdog. I felt perfectly safe walking him on a leash through the streets of the lower East Side at night."