Why haven't you heard of Pauli Murray? This accomplished lawyer, educator, and civil rights activist is one of America's most influential individuals of the 20th century, but her gender and sexuality likely kept her out of our textbooks. Learn more about Pauli as Black History Month comes to a close in this week's She the People.

Hosts: Heather Linder & Billy Puckett

Producer and Music Composition: Tim Corpus (timcorpus.com)

Sources: 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-many-lives-of-pauli-murray

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/books/review/the-firebrand-and-the-first-lady-by-patricia-bell-scott.html

https://www.salon.com/2015/02/18/black_queer_feminist_erased_from_history_meet_the_most_important_legal_scholar_youve_likely_never_heard_of/

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/19/387200033/the-black-queer-feminist-legal-trailblazer-youve-never-heard-of