Reagan Jackson on Pauli Murray

Hinton’s first Author, Reagan Jackson, gives a history lesson on a for too often forgotten leader in civil rights and queer US history.

Reagan Jackson, author of our debut book Still True, recently wrote about Pauli Murray, one of the most important historical and unsung figures in modern U.S. history. Often ahead of their time, Murray was a founding member of the National Organization for Women and went unrecognized for her thought leadership in two court cases that changed the face of this country: Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and led to integrating schools, and Reed v. Reed, the 1971 case that outlawed discrimination on the basis of sex.

Learn more in the full essay, here.