Law School Years

Pauli Murray further demonstrated her dedication to pushing the envelope while she was in law school. 

• Murray enrolled at Howard University School of Law, in 1941. She was the only woman in her graduating class and discrimianted against by both students and professors.
• "I became a convinced feminist at he predominantly Negro Howard University Law School […] They wouldn't let me open my mouth the first year. I was the invisible woman. I came out first in my class. They let me speak the second year."
• In 1942, she formed CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, with George Houser, James Farmer, and Bayard Rustin.
• Led and participated in sit-ins at segreagted Washington, D.C. restaurants and cafeterias
• Wrote a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, criticizing him for his inaction on racial violence in the southern United States, following the execution of Odell Waller. Waller was exectued after being convicted by an all white jury.