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The Woman Who Wrote the Blueprint for Two Civil Rights Movements — and Got Left Off the Invitation List
Pauli Murray failed the bar exam twice, was rejected by Harvard Law for being a woman, and spent years being turned away at virtually every institutional door she knocked on. None of that stopped her from quietly authoring the legal arguments that Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg would later use to reshape American law. This is the story of a life that history kept trying to erase — and kept failing to.