November 5, 2022
2022-11-05T17:00:00
Great Neck House Room 1/Movie Room
14 Arrandale Avenue
Great Neck, NY 11023
Movie - My Name Is Pauli Murray
Saturday, November 5, 2022
A look at the life and ideas of Pauli Murray, a non-binary Black lawyer, activist and poet who influenced both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall.
Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, a full decade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned separate-but-equal legislation, Pauli Murray was already knee-deep fighting for social justice. A pioneering attorney, activist, priest and dedicated memoirist, Murray shaped landmark litigation--and consciousness--around race and gender equity. As an African American youth raised in the segregated South--who was also wrestling with broader notions of gender identity--Pauli understood, intrinsically, what it was to exist beyond previously accepted categories and cultural norms. Both Pauli's personal path and tireless advocacy foreshadowed some of the most politically consequential issues of our time. Told largely in Pauli's own words, My Name is Pauli Murray is a candid recounting of that unique and extraordinary journey.
Stars: Patricia Bell-Scott, Pauli Murray(archive footage), Dolores Chandler
PG-13 | 1h 31min | Documentary | 2021