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Social justice trailblazer becomes queer icon three decades later in Sundance film Dan Allen © Provided by NBC News As filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen were creating RBG, their wildly popular, Oscar-nominated documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, they encountered a far more unsung social justice trailblazer who also was a strong inspiration for Ginsburg: Pauli Murray. Murray, born in Baltimore in 1910, was orphaned at a young age and raised by maternal relatives in Durham, North Carolina, before forging a singular path to become a successful activist, poet, lawyer and memoirist and earner of many a far-flung distinction, among them becoming California s first Black deputy attorney general and the Episcopal Church s first Black female priest. Murray s brilliant writings about civil rights legislation were decades ahead of their time: Justice Thurgood Marshall referred to Murray s 1950 book States Laws on Race and Color as the Bi

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