Join Barrington Public Library and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee on Sunday, September 22 at 1 pm for a showing of My Name is Pauli Murray (2021), a documentary about the life of Pauli Murray, a legal trailblazer whose ideas influenced RBG’s fight for gender equality and Thurgood Marshall’s civil rights arguments. Following the film, we will have a discussion lead by DEI members and local faith leaders about the film.

There will be two showings of this film. Register for the Wednesday, September 25 at 6:30 pm screening HERE. 

Free and open to adults & teens. Registration is recommended but not required.

2021 - 1 hr 31 mins - PG

About the documentary:

Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, a full decade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned separate-but-equal legislation, Pauli Murray was already knee-deep fighting for social justice. A pioneering attorney, activist, priest and dedicated memoirist, Murray shaped landmark litigation—and consciousness— around race and gender equity. As an African American youth raised in the segregated South—who was also wrestling with broader notions of gender identity—Pauli understood, intrinsically, what it was to exist beyond previously accepted categories and cultural norms. Both Pauli’s personal path and tireless advocacy foreshadowed some of the most politically consequential issues of our time. Told largely in Pauli’s own words, My Name is Pauli Murray is a candid recounting of that unique and extraordinary journey.