Pauli Murray united activism, poetry, law, politics, teaching, and faith in a lifelong pursuit of justice. The deep conviction that sustained her activism also lived in her poetry, including “Dark Testament,” which expressed her dream of freedom and human dignity. As a law student, she advanced a daring legal approach that became a foundational argument in Brown v. Board, which signaled the end of legal segregation, and in the 1960s she developed a similar strategy for the growing fight for women’s rights. Her legal compilation States' Laws on Race and Color was regarded by Thurgood Marshall as the “Bible for civil rights litigators,” and with Mary O. Eastwood she co-authored “Jane Crow and the Law,” which helped redefine women’s rights law. Her activism also took many forms beyond legal scholarship: she led early sit-ins, ran for NY city council, taught constitutional law in Ghana, co-founded the National Organization for Women, and advocated for the inclusion of sex as a protected category in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In her final decade, after the death of her partner Irene Barlow, she turned her focus more fully to spiritual matters, and her enduring faith and hard-won personal confidence led to her ordination as the first African American female Episcopal priest. In 2012, the denomination designated her an Episcopal saint.