- Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family. New York: Harper, 1956.
- Dark Testament, and Other Poems. Norwalk, Conn.: Silvermine, 1970.
- Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
- Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. (Originally published as Song in a Weary Throat, 1987)