because polly murray was a lawyer. she was in 1944 graduate of howard law school, and around the time she graduate from law school she came up with this idea she called jane crow. schoe game will, jane crow sounds bill som referred. it sounds like jim crow.lmed jim that was her idea. there was something other calle jim crow, race segregation which lots of people are trying to ntrary show was contrary to law.there w there was something after she ll said called jane crow. crow sex segregation and she argued it was more or less the same thing. it was a radical thing to say in 1944. let me just read a little bit how pauley murray came to have this radical idea that effects all of us today. in the fall of 1941, she arrived in washington, d.c., for her first year of study at howard law school. wanting nothing more than to represent her race and struggles with segregation. she described her civil righted a vote -- ed a vote she was egger to demonstrate it. on the path to law was a simple trip south the previous year to see a

howard university law student polly murray at the fitness and restaurants in washing d.c.ere were segments and restaurants in st. louis and chicago. some of the banners that participants in those segments cared as they march in front of the restaurant. our boys, bombs, brothers are fighting for you. why can't we eat here? we die together, why can we eat together? another one, and not feasible it is no prejudice. how do you do fall was one women who was involved in a protest in st. louis. she carried a sign that said i invested 5 cents in the service. these women laid the foundation for the civil rights movement of the 60s. they and many other african-american women believed there was no better time to demand equality. the world without war to defeat fascism. black men and women were risking their lives in dangerous war-torn countries. some gave their life for a country that denies the basic rates. what better time to demand an end to racism? doubled the trees signify the struggle of african-americans who are are fighting for the river fascism and river discrimination a hom

of the features of the reef reef, 1971, we put on the cover page at counsel to women's names, polly murray and/or the kenyan. these are women, a generation older, i was, who were saying exactly the same things that we were saying in the '40s and '50s, but society wasn't ready to listen. put women on juries in every state. the young people today, they have no idea what the world was like then. women were either not called at all for jury duty, or they were given an excuse simply because the statute said he was excuse for jury duty? any woman. that was dorothy's mission. she had the perfect case against florida. this is a woman whose husband was abusive. he was a philanderer, and the two were engaged in a quarrel. she felt a little bit like billy budd. he has a stutter so he can't defend himself. she was so outraged by this man, she saw her son's baseball bat in the corner of the room, and took it, and with all of her might hit him on the head. he fell. she is being tried for murder in hillsborough county, florida, where they don't put women on the jury room. women can, to the clerk's office