Pauli Murray, 1910-1985, believed in justice, reconciliation, and freedom and championed human rights through work as an author, educator, lawyer, feminist, poet, and priest. Living one of the most remarkable lives of the twentieth century, she played key roles in public fights for African American and women's rights while grappling with economic struggles, sexuality, and gender identity. She used words as tools for liberation, writing letters to newspapers, memos to Congress, law textbooks, sermons, speeches, and memoirs, and she chronicled her life and work as important and impactful. Drawing on her experiences as a woman, a person of color, a worker, and a member of the LGBTQ community, Murray crafted a broad vision of justice, equity, and human rights, refused to be confined by categories of gender, race, class, and sexuality, pressed others to expand their vision, and fought to lift up women in the civil rights movement and women of color in the women's rights movement.