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Who is the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray?

In 1956, Murray published Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family, a biography of how white supremacy and anti-Blackness oppressed their grandparents and their efforts of racial uplift, and a poignant portrayal of their hometown of Durham. Shortly after the book came out, Murray was offered a job in the litigation department at a new law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton, and Garrison. While working there, Murray met their partner Irene Barlow, the office manager at the firm.

In 1960, Murray traveled to Ghana to explore their African cultural roots and teach law. While there, s/he co-authored a book, The Constitution and Government of Ghana, with Leslie Rubin. When Murray returned, s/he enrolled at Yale Law School where s/he studied for the JSD degree and mentored several young women activists, including Marian Wright Edelman, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Patricia Roberts Harris who all became leaders in their own right.

President John F. Kennedy appointed Pauli Murray to the Committee on Civil and Political Rights as a

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Pauli Murray was first in her class at Howard University Law school and the only woman. She is the first African American to earn a J.S.D. from Yale Law School and a co-founder of the National Organization for Women. In 1977, Murray became the first African American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.

EXPLORE PAULI MURRAY'S PROUD SHOES EXHIBITION

Pauli Murray was born Anna Pauline Murray in Baltimore, Maryland. After her parents’ death, she spent her childhood in North Carolina and New York. After graduating from Hunter College in 1928, she shortened her name to Pauli to embrace a more androgynous identity. During the Great Depression, Murray worked for the Works Progress Administration and the Workers Defense League and taught for the New York City Remedial Reading project.

Murray was arrested in 1940 for disorderly conduct on an interstate bus trip where she challenged the constitutionality of segregating bus passengers. This incident, coupled with her time working with the Workers Defense League, inspired her to attend law school at Howard University. Whi

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About Pauli Murray

Born Anna Pauline Murray, Pauli chose the gender non-specific Pauli. A jurist and activist who contributed some of the legal groundwork to the civil rights movement, Pauli left Durham, NC, as a teenager to attend Hunter College in the 1920s and 1930s. Later, Pauli’s failed attempt to study at the all-white University of North Carolina garnered national attention and established a reputation as civil rights activist.

In 1965, Pauli became the first African-American to receive a JSD degree from Yale Law School. Later Pauli wrote “Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII” and “Roots of the Racial Crisis: Prologue to Policy,” both of which proved profoundly influential in challenging the legal foundations of racial discrimination.

Pauli wrestled with gender identity and Pauli’s most intense romantic relationships were with women. A co-founder of the National Organization for Women, a vice-president of Benedict College in South Carolina, the first person to teach African-American Studies and Women’s Studies at Brandeis University,