MOVIE · 2021
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Documentary91 min
Pauli Murray was shaping arguments about race and gender long before history gave them full notice. Built from archival footage and Murray’s own audio recordings, this documentary traces the life of the Black lawyer, activist, poet, and priest whose thinking informed Thurgood Marshall’s civil rights arguments and Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s work on gender equality. The film follows Murray from a youth in the segregated South through a career spent challenging legal and social boundaries, while voices including Eleanor Holmes Norton and Chase Strangio help place Murray’s influence within a larger American story.
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