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Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray
| Arrest Date | 21 March 1940 |
| Arrest Location | Petersburg, Virginia |
| Charge | Arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus — fifteen years before Rosa Parks. |
Historical Record
Pauli Murray was arrested for sitting in the white section of a Virginia bus fifteen years before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. A lawyer, poet, and priest, Murray coined the legal concept of “Jane Crow” to name the intersection of racial and sex discrimination. Murray’s legal scholarship directly influenced Thurgood Marshall’s arguments in Brown v. Board of Education.
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The full Good Trouble profile for Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray — including sourced archival photography, expanded biographical history, and complete arrest record — is in development. This page will be updated as the archive grows.
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