A Legal Legacy, From RBG to the ERA (from "Fighting Jane Crow")

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Pauli Murray rose to the top of the class at Howard Law School, despite enduring prejudice as a woman trying to earn a law degree in the 1940s. Legal historian Serena Mayeri says this was just one example of Murray overcoming sex discrimination. Joanne talks with Mayeri about how Murray channeled a frustration with sex discrimination into an influential career publishing legal papers that helped advance women’s equality.

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