![]() While a law school student – the only woman in her school – Pauli suggested that the way to overturn the “separate but equal” doctrine enshrined in Plessy v. ![]() decades before the demonstrations at that Woolworth’s counter in Greensboror and she anticipated the Freedom Summer of 1964 in urging her white classmates from law school to head south to fight for civil rights, wondering how to “attract young white graduates of the great universities to come down and join with us.” She was a problem child. ![]() She organized sit-ins that successfully desegregated restaurants in Washington, D.C. for women.” (Pauli was one of the original 28 women who founded the National Organization for Women.) She was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus when instructed to do so by the driver … 20 years before Rosa Parks in Montgomery. Pauli was one of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality, and she encouraged Betty Friedan to create what she called an “N.A.A.C.P. Pauli Murray saw herself … and not without some reason. “America’s problem child.” That’s the way – one of the ways – that the Rev. ![]() Perhaps it is because of this I am America’s problem child …” “I have never been able to accept what I believe to be an injustice. ![]()
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