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Though their legacies have often been overlooked, trans Americans have been central to the country’s battles for justice, from racial equality to anti-fascism. In a new series, the Guardian spotlights their work
‘We are resilient’: the activist sheltering trans people in Trump’s America
Fifteen years before Rosa Parks was arrested, Pauli Murray took a seat in the whites-only section of a bus.
At age 29 in March 1940, Murray was jailed in Virginia after rejecting a bus driver’s order to move to the back. Years later, the legal scholar’s writings on racism served as Thurgood Marshall’s “bible” for the Brown v Board of Education decision banning school segregation – and helped shape Martin Luther King Jr’s beliefs in non-violent resistance. Continue reading...