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Trump Administration Erases Page Honoring Trailblazing Priest, Lawyer, and Activist

Photograph of Pauli Murray. Murray sent this photo to Eleanor Roosevelt in December 1955. Photo by the FDR Presidential Library & Museum and used with permission. 

Faith leaders, historians, and advocates are speaking out after the National Park Service removed its webpage dedicated to Rev. Pauli Murray, a pivotal figure in civil rights history who broke barriers as both a legal scholar and the first perceived Black woman ordained as an Episcopal priest.

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