Pauli Murray
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Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray was an American civil rights activist, advocate, legal scholar and theorist, author and – later in life – an Episcopal priest. Murray's work influenced the civil rights mov
The house where Murray lived in Durham, North Carolina
Back, l to r, Albert M. Sacks, Pauli Murray, Mary Bunting; seated, l to r, Alma Lutz and Betty Friedan
Howard University School of Law
Murray is honored on a 2024 American Women quarter.
Maida Springer Kemp
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Maida Springer Kemp was an American labor organizer who worked extensively in the garment industry to improve labor standards for men and women in America through the Local Union 22. She was also know
Pauli Murray
…DC, focusing particularly on ministry to the sick. On July 1, 1985, Pauli Murray died of pancreatic cancer in the house she owned with lifelong friend Maida Springer Kemp in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2012, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church voted to honor Murray as one of its Holy Women, Holy Men, to be…
Maida Kemp
Kemp (right) poses with two other women c. 1940s