The Woman Who Refused to Choose

In June 1966, Pauli Murray sat among delegates at the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington, D. C. , frustrated by decades of being told to fight one injustice at a time. As a Black woman and legal scholar — the first African American woman to earn a Doctor of Juridical Science from Yale Law School — Murray had challenged racial segregation since the 1940s.…