As you drive around Durham, you'll notice several murals depicting a bespectacled African-American woman. That woman is Pauli Murray: writer, attorney, civil rights activist, and Episcopal priest. You can read all about her, and her murals, on the Pauli Murray Project website.
Pauli Murray may be most famous for Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family, a memoir of her childhood and biography of her grandparents, Robert and Cornelia Fitzgerald, who raised her in their home in Durham's West End, in a house on what is now Carroll Street. Her childhood home still stands, and this is your destination for this cache. Though the Pauli Murray Project is working to acquire and restore the house (at this writing), it is currently in private hands, so don't approach the cache from Carroll Street. Rather, come through Maplewood Cemetery. The cache location is away from the graves, across a gravel drive, but inside the fence, just behind the old Fitzgerald house, which was built in the 1890s and is one of the oldest surviving structures in the West End. If you come away feeling this historic residence needs a little TLC, there are volunteer opportunities with the Pauli Murray Project that will enable you to help with that.
You might wonder how it was for a child growing up with a cemetery in her backyard. In Proud Shoes, Pauli Murray speaks of "…the suppressed terror by night and macabre fascination by day which the cemetery had for me. As soon as darkness closed down upon us and we were shut in with it, our house became a fortress against imaginary ghostly legions." But, "Morning transformed the cemetery into a beautiful park of birds, rabbits, squirrels, and, in summer, flowers blooming everywhere." The Fitzgeralds ignored the law that barred them from entry to the whites-only cemetery and used it as a walking route to visit relatives on Chapel Hill Road. While you're here, you can explore this cemetery for yourself by doing the nearby caches, Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust.