Lawyer, scholar, priest and queer pioneer Pauli Murray is exactly the kind of historical personage for whom the phrase “I can’t believe I’ve never heard of them before!” exists.
No less than Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were indebted to Murray for their legal triumphs in overturning segregation and discrimination against women. “We literally live in an architecture of the world that Pauli Murray built,” says Professor Brittney Cooper in the new bio-doc My Name Is Pauli Murray.
But for all that they contributed to society, Murray was just as committed to being their truest self — whether that meant trainhopping during the Depression, moving to a newly independent Ghana or entering a seminary at the age of 63.
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