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Pauli Murray

Legal Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, Poet

Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray is civil rights activist, legal scholar, feminist, poet, Episcopal priest, and women’s rights activist. Their book, States’ Laws on Race and Color was considered by Thurgood Marshall as the “Bible” for civil rights litigators. Murray co-founded the National Organization for Women in 1966. Ruth Bader Ginsburg recognized Murray’s pioneering work on gender discrimination by naming them as a coauthor of a brief on Reed v. Reed. Murray’s gender was complex, and they lived in an era where terminology for gender expression greatly differed. The Pauli Murray Center currently refers to Murray with s/he or they/them pronouns.

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