Pauli Murray: Women's Rights Activist

Pauli Murray

Creating a trail for racial and gender equality in a time where women, especially black women were seen as woefully inferior, Pauli Murray was an educator, poet, and a women’s right advocate. Anna Pauline Murray was a strong women who didn’t take no for an answer. She chose to be called Pauli Murray and was born on November 20, 1910. She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and was very lonely as a girl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_Murray#Women.27s_rights). She was treated with disrespect and hatred, because of her gender and race. She showed people that what she looked like doesn’t matter but, what she did is what should count. Murray did this by becoming an educator, a poet, and one of the strongest women’s rights advocate.

Pauli Murray was a strong educator

These incidents made Murray work even harder, and she didn’t let anyone get in the way of her doing so. Murray received a law degree from Howard University and the University of Carolina (http://paulimurrayproject.org/pauli-murray/poetry-by-pauli-murray/). Later, she got a doctorate from Yale in the early 1960’s (https://ncwomenofcivilrights.wordpress.com/pauli-murray/the-legacy-of-pauli-murray/). After these accomplishments, Murray started to share her brain with the world. Pauli Murray traveled to Ghana and took the position of a senior lecturer at the Ghana School of Law in the 1960’s (https://ncwomenofcivilrights.wordpress.com/pauli-murray/poetry-and-publications/). There, she taught about law, and life as an African-American women. Later, Murray served as vice president of Benedict college from 1967-1968. She then left Benedict to become a professor at Brandeis University. At Brandeis, she introduced a class that talked about African-American people, and how they are treated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_Murray#Women.27s_rights). This truly was a revolutionary class, because she opened people’s eyes to see how