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Pauli Murray: Breaking Barriers of Race and Gender

As a queer Black lawyer, poet and civil rights activist, Pauli Murray understood how our different identities can overlap to create multiple levels of discrimination. Her groundbreaking work in championing equality for all helped change America for the...

Joseph Henry Douglass: Changing America With Music

America Explained

Classical violinist Joseph Henry Douglass helped empower the Black community through music and education at a time when Southern lawmakers were pushing back against the progress of...

Thurgood Marshall: From School Suspension to Supreme Court

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Thurgood Marshall, the most successful civil rights lawyer of all time and America’s first Supreme court Justice, was instrumental in the fight for equality in the United...

Pauli Murray: Breaking Barriers of Race and Gender

Joseph Henry Douglass: Changing America With Music

Thurgood Marshall: From School Suspension to Supreme Court

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