The late African American civil rights activist, author and legal scholar Pauli Murray spent a lifetime taking on the system—fighting inequality, institutionalized racism and gender bias.Just how successful Murray became in waging those battles emerges in the Amazon Studios documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, and produced and co-written by Talleah Bridges McMahon.“I was really moved by really Pauli’s tenacity,” McMahon said during a panel discussion of the film at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event. “[Pauli] had so many obstacles in the way, starting from being a young child who was going to a segregated school.
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