Fifteen years before Rosa Parks was arrested, Pauli Murray took a seat
in the whites-only section of a bus.
At age 29 in March 1940, Murray was jailed in Virginia after rejecting a
bus driver’s order to move to the back. Years later, the legal scholar’s
writings on racism served as Thurgood Marshall’s “bible” for the Brown v
Board of Education decision banning school segregation – and helped
shape Martin Luther King Jr’s beliefs in non-violent resistance.
Murray’s profound civil rights legacy is often erased, as is a key part
of her biography. She described herself as a mixture of genders with
language that closely resembles contemporary definitions of non-binary
and trans male identities: “maybe two got fused into one with parts of
each sex” and “one of nature’s experiments; a girl who should have been
a boy”.
Murray’s extraordinary and forgotten role in influencing some of the
biggest civil rights advancements of the 20th century is an early
example of the way transgender and non-binary leaders have been at the
forefront of so many historic struggles.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/29/trans-activists-civil-rights-lgbt-pauli-murray
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