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1940: arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus

1948: Candidate for New York City Council

1954: Brown v. Board of Education 

1961: Appointed by JFK to Presidential Commission on the Status of Women

1964: Helped write Title VII of the Civil Rights Act​

1966: Co-founded National Organization for Women (NOW)

1970s: Campaigns/marches for the Equal Rights Amendment

1971: Ruth Bader Ginsburg credits Murray with legal analysis critical to establishing the equal protection clause applies to women in Reed v. Reed 

2020: SCOTUS ruled in Bostock v. Clayton County that "sex" mentioned in Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects from discrimination at work on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity

Quotes

• "Given the tendency of privileged groups to retain their power and privilege and to play one disadvantaged group off against another, and given the accelerating militancy of Women's Liberation, there is a grave danger of a head on collision of this movement with the movement for black liberation unless our decision makers recognize and implement the rights of all."​

  • Testimony, House Committee on Education and Labor, 1970​