Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Published: May 27, 2021, 10 a.m.

b'Guest: Rosalind Rosenberg is Professor of History Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of several books including Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism, and her latest, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray.\\xa0Pauli Murray was the first African American\\xa0to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and her legal work on the 14th amendment provided the groundwork for Brown v. Board and inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg\\u2019s work with women\\u2019s rights and the 14th Amendment. Murray\\xa0also struggled with issues of identity: by today\\u2019s standards, she would be considered transgender.\\n\\xa0\\nThe post Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray appeared first on KPFA.'