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In the legendary court case [Brown v Board Of Education, Thurgood Marshall] used key points from Murray's civil rights argument article to help secure a win.
As The New Yorker reports, Murray may be the most important Black legal scholar in our country's history, yet we rarely hear of her impact on legal reform. In her final year of law school, Murray wrote a paper arguing that segregation violated the 13th and 14th Amendments of the United States Constitution. A few years later, her former Howard Law professor Spottswood Robinson joined Thurgood Marshall, alongside several others, to try to end Jim Crow. While working on the case, Robinson remembered Murray’s paper, took it out of his files and presented it to his team, which later helped them successfully argue Brown v. Board of Education.
Yet Murray's knowledge of her contribution to the case didn't come until her mid-50s. And according to The New Yorker, it took time for society to find out about her involvement, too...
By the 1950s, Murray was a prominent civil rights attorney with a large platform, and according to the National Organization for Women, her decision to speak up about her queerness and political beliefs caused her to become erased from most chronicles of the civil rights movement...
READ MORE AT BUSTLE: https://www.bustle.com/p/how-feminist-pauli-murray-quietly-helped-thurgood-marshall-win-brown-v-board-of-education-2796596
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