Teaser Trailer: Amazon Original Documentary ‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ | The documentary film follows the life of lawyer and activist Pauli Murray who was instrumental in arguing the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment outlawed discrimination based on sex.
Scheduled to be released in theaters on September 17, 2021, and on Amazon Prime on October 1, 2021.
Directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, written by West, Cohen, Talleah Bridges McMahon and Cinque Northern,
Several scholars of Murray’s work are featured in the film including Brittney Cooper and Rosalind Rosenberg. Rosenberg’s research for the book Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray is also highlighted. The film includes significant coverage of Murray’s papers housed at the Schlesinger library. Murray’s influence on Ruth Bader Ginsburg is covered in detail throughout the film.
Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, a full decade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned separate-but-equal legislation, Pauli Murray was already knee-deep fighting for social justice. A pioneering attorney, activist, priest, and dedicated memoirist, Murray shaped landmark litigation—and consciousness— around race and gender equity. As an African American youth raised in the segregated South— who was also wrestling with broader notions of gender identity—Pauli understood, intrinsically, what it was to exist beyond previously accepted categories and cultural norms. Both Pauli’s personal path and tireless advocacy foreshadowed some of the most politically consequential issues of our time. Told largely in Pauli’s own words, My Name is Pauli Murray is a candid recounting of that unique and extraordinary journey.
Teaser Trailer: Amazon Original Documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray
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