My Name Is Pauli Murray — which tells the story of their extraordinary journey from Black kid growing up in the segregated South to a trailblazing advocate who helped shape legislation around race and gender equality — aims to correct that.
Without question, Murray lived an exceptional life. They were a nonbinary Black activist, lawyer, priest, and poet whose work impacted everyone from Eleanor Roosevelt to Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
They were the first Black person to receive a doctorate from Yale Law School, and their book States’ Laws on Race and Color, written in 1950, was cited by Marshall as the key document in the fight against racial segregation.