[Editor's note: Philadelphia Gay News, which distributed this article, is using she/her pronouns in keeping with Pauli Murray's own writings, but Murray was a transmasculine and gender-nonconforming lesbian.]Some say Pauli Murray is the most important American activist you've never heard of.
An iconoclastic, socialist-leaning, gender-fluid feminist and Black civil rights activist, Murray broke barriers in every aspect of her life.
And the paths Murray created single-handedly and single-mindedly changed history.Murray is, in many respects, the one-name answer to why we need LGBTQ History Month.
Murray's quest to find herself as someone who variously identified as a woman, a man, and as neither, ran parallel to Murray's search for racial and.