Many of the signature rulings that we have seen, to me, go all the way back to Pauley's notion of human dignity and human equality and authentic selfhood.

Hi, and welcome to Amicus.

This is Slate's podcast about the courts and the law and the Supreme Court and the rule of law. And I'm Dahlia Lithwick and I cover those things for Slate. Today's show is part of our summer series where we take a step back from the news cycle to talk a little bit about books you haven't read yet, films you

haven't seen yet.

And this week, we wanted to talk about one of the most seminal figures in the last

century's civil rights battles for both racial and gender equality, Polly Murray.

Later on in the show, Slate's own Mark Joseph Stern will be joining us

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If Ruth Bader Ginsburg was known as the Thurgood Marshall of the Gender Equality Movement,

I don't even know what to call Polly Murray, who, believe it or not, I never even learned about in law school.

Murray was both the Ginsburg and the Marshall of the race and gender equality movements,

doing sit-ins before there were sit-ins, refusing to move to the back of the bus a decade before

Rosa Parks. A law school paper that Murray wrote on Plessy v. Ferguson actually became part of the

briefing in Brown v. Board of Education. It's just that nobody told or credited Polly Murray.

Okay, so now Murray is the subject of a new documentary. It's called My Name is Polly Murray.

It premiered at Sundance and will be released by

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