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‘RBG’ directors shed light on another legal trailblazer Pauli Murray organized sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, wrote in law journals and was one of the founders of the National Organization for Women. By LINDSEY BAHRAssociated Press Share A scene from My Name is Pauli Murray. Murray, who was Black and gender fluid, was a pivotal figure in shaping litigation and thinking around gender and racial equality, years before the civil rights or women’s movements. Sundance Institute via AP Directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West first came across the name Pauli Murray while working on their Oscar-nominated documentary “RBG.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg had written “Pauli Murray” on the front cover of her first women’s rights brief before the Supreme Court to give credit for the idea she’d be arguing. Murray had, in 1965, written a law journal article positing that the 14th Amendment could be used to protect gender equality. It would be a foundational idea for Ginsburg.

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