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Who called Pauli Murray's 1950 book "States' Laws on Race and Color", the "bible" of the civil rights movement?

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Rosa Parks

  • Thurgood Marshall

  • Malcolm X

Answer

Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first African American Supreme Court justice, called Pauli Murray's 1950 book "States' Laws on Race and Color" the "bible" of the civil rights movement. Murray was a lawyer, civil rights activist, and Episcopal priest who was also a friend of Marshall. Her book was a comprehensive study of the laws that discriminated against African Americans in the United States.
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