Our knowledgeable staff will guide you through the interior of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s home through the interactive exhibits and remarkable historic space. Advanced registration is recommended, but not required and regular admission is $20 per person. Community tickets available for those with financial need. Purchase tickets at tinyurl.com/pmctours or pay at the door.

Join us for a self-guided tour of Pauli Murray's childhood home. Explore both the outdoor and indoor exhibits, highlighting the themes of identity, activism, and love. Staff and volunteers will be on site to help answer questions and welcome you to the space. Self-guided tours are $10 for a standard ticket, but pay-what-you-can pricing is available. Reservations are welcome, but not required. Tickets are available at the door via cash, check, or card payment.

Our knowledgeable staff will guide you through the interior of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s home through the interactive exhibits and remarkable historic space. Advanced registration is recommended, but not required and regular admission is $20 per person. Community tickets available for those with financial need. Purchase tickets at tinyurl.com/pmctours or pay at the door.

Our knowledgeable staff will guide you through the interior of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s home through the interactive exhibits and remarkable historic space. Advanced registration is recommended, but not required and regular admission is $20 per person. Community tickets available for those with financial need. Purchase tickets at tinyurl.com/pmctours or pay at the door.

Join us for a self-guided tour of Pauli Murray's childhood home. Explore both the outdoor and indoor exhibits, highlighting the themes of identity, activism, and love. Staff and volunteers will be on site to help answer questions and welcome you to the space. Self-guided tours are $10 for a standard ticket, but pay-what-you-can pricing is available. Reservations are welcome, but not required. Tickets are available at the door via cash, check, or card payment.

What does it mean for history to be truly accessible?

CANDOR, the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, and Whistle Stop Tours invite community members to a conversation about accessibility and the Roots and Soul: Walking with Pauli Murray tour.

We want to hear from people who have participated in the tour and people who have considered participating but were unsure whether the experience would be accessible to them. Together, we’ll explore accessibility broadly—including physical, sensory, cognitive, communication, social, financial, and other barriers that can shape whether and how someone participates.

This conversation is an opportunity to share experiences, identify barriers, name what supports access, and imagine what the tour could become. Your feedback will directly inform the ongoing accessibility work and future design of the Roots and Soul tour.

Pauli Murray’s legacy calls us to examine who has access to history, whose stories are centered, and what barriers remain. Your experiences, needs, and ideas will directly guide our work to make future Roots and Soul tours more accessible and deepen our practice of collective access.

RSVP at tinyurl.com/accessiblehistory

Our knowledgeable staff will guide you through the interior of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s home through the interactive exhibits and remarkable historic space. Advanced registration is recommended, but not required and regular admission is $20 per person. Community tickets available for those with financial need. Purchase tickets at tinyurl.com/pmctours or pay at the door.

The Pauli Murray Center will close at 12:30 PM on Saturday, September 19th for a private event.

Please note that we are still OPEN on September 19th from 10 AM - 12:30 PM for self-guided tours.

We appreciate your understanding!

Join us for a self-guided tour of Pauli Murray's childhood home. Explore both the outdoor and indoor exhibits, highlighting the themes of identity, activism, and love. Staff and volunteers will be on site to help answer questions and welcome you to the space. Self-guided tours are $10 for a standard ticket, but pay-what-you-can pricing is available. Reservations are welcome, but not required. Tickets are available at the door via cash, check, or card payment.

What does it mean for history to be truly accessible?

CANDOR, the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, and Whistle Stop Tours invite community members to a conversation about accessibility and the Roots and Soul: Walking with Pauli Murray tour.

We want to hear from people who have participated in the tour and people who have considered participating but were unsure whether the experience would be accessible to them. Together, we’ll explore accessibility broadly—including physical, sensory, cognitive, communication, social, financial, and other barriers that can shape whether and how someone participates.

This conversation is an opportunity to share experiences, identify barriers, name what supports access, and imagine what the tour could become. Your feedback will directly inform the ongoing accessibility work and future design of the Roots and Soul tour.

Pauli Murray’s legacy calls us to examine who has access to history, whose stories are centered, and what barriers remain. Your experiences, needs, and ideas will directly guide our work to make future Roots and Soul tours more accessible and deepen our practice of collective access.

RSVP at tinyurl.com/accessiblehistory

Join the Campaign for Southern Equality, LGBTQ Center of Durham, Comfry Films, and the Pauli Murray Center for a trans wellness fair featuring free trans wellness resources, food, and music. A short film screening will be offered inside Pauli Murray's childhood home from 6 - 7:30 PM.

No tickets are required for the wellness fair. To attend the film screening, RSVP's are required. Get free film screening tickets here.

Explore the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray - pioneering civil rights activist, author, lawyer, and labor organizer - through the Pauli Murray Center's interactive exhibits. Dive into the themes of identity, activism, and love as you learn about the life of this incredible Durhamite. Members of our staff will be present to welcome you to the Center and answer questions about the space.

Admission to the Pauli Murray Center is FREE on July 18th thanks to the generous sponsorship of our friends at Self Help Credit Union.

Save the date for the annual Pauli Murray Service at St. Titus Episcopal Church, honoring Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray's sainthood in the episcopal tradition.

While this is an episcopal service, participants of all faith backgrounds are welcome to attend.

Following the service, an ice cream social will be hosted for all who wish to participate.

Join our Director of Education and Outreach on a journey through the interior of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s home. Through the interactive exhibits and remarkable historic space, you’ll explore Murray’s life with a particular focus on Pauli’s queerness in honor of Pride Month. Advanced registration is recommended, as this tour sells out fast. Purchase tickets at tinyurl.com/pmctours

We are open on Friday, June 19th in support of the West End Lyon Park Foundation's Juneteenth Block Party! Come participate in the celebration, hang out on our front lawn, or explore our inaugural exhibit. Community admission to the indoor exhibits are FREE during the celebration.

Come for food, kids activities, vendors, and live performers in Durham's Historic West End!

Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray used her personal religious convictions to advocate for a just world. More importantly, Murray recognized community and reconciliation as a necessary part of social transformation and healing. In a time where conversations around politics and religion can be polarizing, what can Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s theology and overarching legacy of activism teach us about this moment we’re living through? What is the role of spirituality in today’s liberation work? Retreat participants will be invited to journey mindfully to three sacred spaces that were foundational to Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s spiritual formation: Chapel of the Cross, St. Titus’ Episcopal Church, and the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice.

All participants will receive: 

• A copy of To Speak a Defiant Word

• Transportation to each site (bus will start and end at the Pauli Murray Center)

• Snacks and meals throughout the day

• Thoughtful facilitation and historical/theological framing at each site of significance

Space is limited and advanced tickets are required! Click here to register.

Join us for a self-guided tour of Pauli Murray's childhood home. Explore both the outdoor and indoor exhibits, highlighting the themes of identity, activism, and love. Staff and volunteers will be on site to help answer questions and welcome you to the space.

This free community day is sponsored by Durham LibraryFest! All members of the community are invited to enjoy the exhibits at no cost. Donations are always welcome to support our work.

Join the NCBF Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee and the North Carolina Bar Foundation on for a Name Change Clinic.

Individuals will have an opportunity to meet with attorneys and legal professionals to discuss and/or begin the name change process. Appointments are required. Please see our Instagram page for sign up details when they become available!

The Pauli Murray Center is CLOSED to the public during all legal clinics, to ensure privacy for our visitors. We cannot accommodate drop in visitors who wish to explore the exhibits during this time.

This tour opportunity will be hosted by our Executive Director, Angela Thorpe Mason, and will focus on key pieces of Pauli Murray's life and legacy in the Women's movement. Visitors will be guided through the interior exhibit and historic space, and time for questions and interactive reflection will be included in the time spent together.

Registration is required and tickets sell out fast! See our booking site at tinyurl.com/pmctours to reserve your spot.

This tour opportunity will be hosted by our Executive Director, Angela Thorpe Mason, and will focus on key pieces of Pauli Murray's life and legacy as an African American, in honor of Black History Month. Visitors will be guided through the interior exhibit and historic space, and time for questions and interactive reflection will be included in the time spent together. ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Space fills up fast! Purchase tickets at tinyurl.com/pmctours

Questions? Reach out to info@paulimurraycenter.org

Join us for our Pauli Murray Birthday Celebration this November to explore our inaugural exhibit at no cost!

We're hosting a festival-style celebration on our front lawn featuring vendors, community partners, and more! Gemynii will be offering a D.J. set and we're welcoming some folks from the Durham Queer Circus to re-create some of Pauli's acrobatic photographs at 12 noon.

Stop by the Pauli Murray Center tent to purchase exclusive Pauli Murray Center merch (also available on our website).

Join poet and scholar Cameron Awkward-Rich, PhD (Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), in conversation with author and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs, PhD (NHC Fellow 2020-21). Awkward-Rich will read from his new volume of poetry, An Optimism (Persea Books, October 2025), an exploration of becoming and identity that highlights Black, trans and other minoritized forms of life. Followed by a conversation between Awkward-Rich and Gumbs, two crucial voices in public and creative dialogue about being together in this fraught moment. 

This event is free and open the to public, but donations are greatly appreciated to help offset the cost of hors d'oeuvresv and drinks. RSVP's are required by 12 noon on November 11th to reserve your spot.

This event is co-hosted by the National Humanities Center and the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice.

Be the first to see The Pauli Murray: The Animated Miniseries, a two-part youth-centered project that brings Pauli’s story to life through vibrant animation and creative storytelling.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with members of the creative team behind the series. Come learn how this project honors Pauli’s vision and continues their legacy of justice, imagination, and community. Registration is recommended, but not required! Sign up here.

Guided by the scent storytellers of Bright Black, experience the scent of three flowers—marigold, rose and magnolia. Learn how these three botanicals evoke the essence of the Durham neighborhood Pauli grew up in and symbolize the richness of faith, optimism, stability, resilience, hope and strength that Pauli’s commitment to community fully embodied. All participants will make a custom botanical body fragrance inspired by your own stories and the values that Pauli embodied, as well as receive a Pauli Murray mini candle.

Get tickets here: https://gardens.duke.edu/event/botanical-scent-storytelling-pauli-murray/

Join Preservation Durham and the Pauli Murray Center on this 1.5-hour bus tour, where attendees will learn more about the importance of built space for the protection, celebration, and community building within the LGBTQ+ community in Durham. The tour will include two outside excursions: to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens to visit the Stormie Daie mural and to the Pauli Murray Mural on 1101 W. Chapel Street.

Participants will then visit the Pauli Murray Center for an opportunity to visit the Fitzgerald House for a self-guided tour of the center and its exhibits. This will include a social component with light snacks and beverages.

Get tickets here: https://www.preservationdurham.org/queerhistorytour

Join the Pauli Murray Center and Whistle Stop Tours for our interactive exploration of Pauli Murray's family and West End history. This opportunity is a 90-minute, 1-square-mile walking tour where you will visit 6 historic stops and be inspired by Pauli Murray and the Fitzgerald family's legacy in Durham. This walking tour is considered a 'deep dive' from our standard home tours!*

This specialized experience will only be offered twice a year! Advance registration is required and space is limited.

*Note that this tour doesn't include access to the inside of Pauli Murray's childhood home. To explore inside, please visit us for a guided tour or Open Saturday.

Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roots-and-soul-walking-with-pauli-murray-tickets-1722727928609?aff=oddtdtcreator

Walk in the Footsteps of Pauli Murray

Each year, the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice invites our community to join us on a meaningful pilgrimage through four sites that shaped Pauli’s life, including their childhood home, high school, church, and library.

The full route covers 4.5 miles, with a shorter 1-mile option available for those who prefer it. Along the way, participants will have time for both collective and personal reflection on Pauli’s legacy. At each stop, we’ll share stories, artifacts, and archives that highlight Pauli’s lasting connection to these places.

This is a free event, and people of all spiritual backgrounds are welcome. Advance registration is required. Learn more and sign up here: https://www.ticketsource.com/.../pauli-murray.../e-xoxxqb

Join the NCBF Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee and the North Carolina Bar Foundation on for a Name Change Clinic.

Individuals will have an opportunity to meet with attorneys and legal professionals to discuss and/or begin the name change process. Appointments are required. Sign up here -> https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4BADAB28A7FC1-56524459-name#/

Looking to dive a little deeper into Pauli Murray's life and legacy? Join members of our staff and board for this 5-session course. It will meet September 10th, September 24th, October 8th, October 22nd, and November 5th. Each 1-hour session will dive into a different aspect of Pauli's life and identity with time for questions and reflections along the way. Suggested reading will also be offered, but not required! Topics for the 2025 sessions will be:

• An Introduction to Pauli Murray

• Pauli in Community

• Murray's Intersectional Identities

• Pauli Murray in the Civil Rights Movement

and more!

Sessions will be held every other Wednesday night for 5 weeks.

The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice opened its doors to the public on September 7, 2024 after nearly 10 years. We're excited to celebrate the anniversary of this historic day with two opportunities to celebrate the Center.

Family-led Guided Tour - 10 AM and 11 AM start times

We're excited to offer a unique tour of Pauli Murray's childhood home through the lens of direct descendants of Pauli Murray! Rosita Stevens-Holsey (Pauli's niece) and Ria Aiken (Pauli's grand niece) will speak about their memories and experiences of their incredible ancestor. As a specialized one-time tour opportunity, registration is required and limited subsidized tickets are available. Click here for tickets.

Drop in Celebration - 12 PM - 3 PM

A drop in celebration will follow the family-led tours from 12 - 3 PM at the Pauli Murray Center! If you haven't had a chance to explore our exhibit this year, we'd love to welcome you to this free community celebration. Cupcakes will even be available for the first 50 guests! Registration is not required, but if you'd like to make a donation click here.