Mission Board Film Series: My Name is Pauli Murray

The Justice Committee will host a screening of the documentary, My Name is Pauli Murray, following worship on Sunday, August 13, in the Social Hall. A light lunch will be provided.

Pauli Murray was a writer, activist, legal theorist, and episcopal priest, and was involved in articulating key legal arguments of the Civil Rights Movement. Born Anne Pauline Murray in 1910, they changed their birth name to “Pauli” in the 1930s, a groundbreaking challenge at that time. In 1944, Murray challenged the “separate” part of the Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court decision as a violation of the 13th and 14th Amendments, eventually forming the basis for Brown vs. The Board of Education (1954) case. Murray also was influential in the work of both Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Thurgood Marshall. In 1977, Murray became the first African American woman in the U.S. to become an Episcopal priest. Murray died of cancer in 1985. The Episcopal Church sainted Murray in 2012.

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