Pauli Murray

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  10/13/2022
  

  How Pauli Murray Masterminded Brown v. Board of Education

  by Tejai Beulah Howard

  Overcoming marginalization by male classmates, Pauli Murray made a bet with a professor that segregation could be challenged by arguing that separate was inherently unequal. Murray collected on the bet only after the 1954 ruling validated the argument, but was long denied credit. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/11/2020
  

  ‘On the Books’: Machine Learning Jim Crow

  by William Sturkey

  Lawyer and activist Pauli Murray undertook the arduous task of identifying racially discriminatory laws across the United States, and published a volume cataloguing them in 1950 as a took for attorneys working to dismantle Jim Crow. A University of North Carolina project uses technology to complete that task and demonstrate the historical pervasiveness of racism in the law.