Contributions to the Civil and Human Rights Movement

• Murray's final paper at Howard University School of Law argued that "separate, but equal" violated the United States Constitution. Years later, Professor Spottswood Robinson remembered the strategy Murray suggested and presented it to Thurgood Marshall's Brown v. Board of Education team. It turned out to be a winning strategy.
• Edited a 1951 book titled States’ Laws on Race and Color. The book was a compilation of state and local laws regarding racial segregation and discrimination. Thurgood Marshall was NAACP Counsel at the time and referred to the text as “the Bible for civil rights lawyers.” The text was also useful during the Brown v. Board of Education litigation.
• During the early 1960s, Murray addressed civil rights issues alongside Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King, Jr. During this time she wrote a letter criticizing the men for the lack of women in leadership positions in the movement.