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In 1977, Pauli Murray became the first Black person perceived as a woman in the U.S. to become an Episcopal priest. Pauli Murray died of cancer in Pittsburgh on July 1, 1985. Their autobiography, Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage , was published posthumously in 1987.
Apr 10, 2017 · Books. The Many Lives of Pauli Murray. She was an architect of the civil-rights struggle—and the women’s movement. Why haven’t you heard of her? By Kathryn Schulz. April 10, 2017. It was...
Ginsburg credits lawyer and activist Pauli Murray for inspiring an amicus brief she wrote for the historic 1971 Supreme Court case Reed v. Reed, which was the first time the nation’s highest court recognized women as victims of sex discrimination.
Oct 19, 2021 · Murray—a lawyer, academic, writer and priest—is the multihyphenate subject of the recently released documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray. And the “lost causes” Murray championed, including...
Pauli Murray fundamentally shaped how we understand equality and American constitutional jurisprudence. Murray’s legal impact and scholarship defined and defended the rights of African Americans, women, and LGBTQ+ people.
Pauli Murray lived one of the most extraordinary and influential American lives of the twentieth century. In 1940, fifteen years before Rosa Parks, Murray was arrested for refusing to bend to Jim Crow bus laws.
Pauli Murray was the top student in her graduating class at Howard Law, and went on to earn a master of law degree the following year from the University of California Berkeley School of Law.
