Twenty-Two Years of Learning to Do Right

In 1944, Pauli Murray graduated first in her class from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D. C. She applied to Harvard Law School for graduate study. Harvard rejected her — not for lack of credentials, but because she was a woman. Murray could have walked away from the fight. She didn't. For over two decades, she labored steadily — writing legal scholarship, coining the term "Jane Crow" to name the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, and serving on President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women.…