A. Pauline “Pauli” Murray is the attorney, Episcopal priest and transgender, civil and women’s rights activist of which you most likely have never heard.

Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Murray was arrested for sitting in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus. She was the first woman admitted to Howard University’s law school and graduated at the top of her class.

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