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Pauli Murray: The US firebrand’s unique opportunity to influence a continent

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  • Braham Dabscheck

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This review article discusses Rosalind Rosenberg’s study of Pauli Murray’s pivotal role in enhancing the civil rights of African Americans and American women. Pauli Murray should be properly regarded as one of the leading legal thinkers of Twentieth-Century America. She played a role in the development of the jurisprudential thinking, which brought about an end to race discrimination as enshrined in the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine in the Supreme Court’s 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson and ending sex discrimination beginning with the Supreme Court’s 1971 decision in Reed v. Reed. The objective of this review article is to provide an account of her approach to attacking both legally based race and sex discrimination. Drawing on Rosenberg and referencing key legal texts, it begins with a brief account of Murray’s life and times. This is followed by an examination of her thinking on both race and sex discrimination. The review concludes by commending Rosenberg for her analysis of the intersections between the private and public personas of Pauli Murray in a century which witnessed fundamental changes in America. JEL Codes: B10, B22

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  • Braham Dabscheck, 2019. "Pauli Murray: The US firebrand’s unique opportunity to influence a continent," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 30(4), pages 566-579, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecolab:v:30:y:2019:i:4:p:566-579
    DOI: 10.1177/1035304619879328
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    Keywords

    American Constitution; Brown v. Board of Education; Civil Rights Cases; Eleanor Roosevelt; Fourteenth Amendment; Justice John Marshall Harlan; National Association for the Advancement for Coloured People; Pauli Murray; Plessy v. Ferguson; race discrimination; Reed v. Reed; sex discrimination; slavery; Thirteenth Amendment; Thurgood Marshall;
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    • B10 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - General
    • B22 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Macroeconomics

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