Welcome to The Pauli Murray Center

Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray lived one of the most remarkable lives of the 20th century.

The Pauli Murray Center welcomes everyone. Exhibits, community dialogues, visual and performing arts, activism, and workshops at the Center connect history to contemporary human rights issues.

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Pauli Murray was a groundbreaking civil rights activist, lawyer, poet, priest, and scholar.

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Preserving Pauli Murray’s childhood home and while inspiring their legacy.


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Support the Center’s ongoing work for justice, education, and equality.

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Who is Pauli Murray?

Older Pauli Murray, smiling at the camera and wearing vestments.

“It may be that when historians look back at 20th-century American history, all roads will lead to Pauli Murray . . .

Civil rights, feminism, religion, literature, law, sexuality – no matter what the subject, there is Pauli Murray.”

Susan Ware, Editor, Notable American Women: a Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century

One person plus a typewriter constitutes a movement. -Pauli Murray

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One person plus a typewriter constitutes a movement. -Pauli Murray 〰️

About the Pauli Murray Center

Here at the Pauli Murray Center, we lift up Murray’s incredible life and legacy through community partnerships, engaging programs, stunning exhibits, visual and performing arts, activism, and collaborative workshops that connect history to contemporary human rights issues.

Pauli Murray’s childhood home, built in 1898 by their Fitzgerald grandparents, anchors our historic site and was designated a National Treasure in 2015 and a National Historic Landmark in 2016.

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Make a donation to help preserve Pauli Murray’s legacy and support the Center’s ongoing work for justice, education, and equality.


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