Yale’s fourteenth residential college was named in honor of civil rights activist and lawyer Pauli Murray (JSD 1965, DDIV Hon. 1979) who in 1965 became the first African American to earn a JSD degree from Yale Law School. Murray’s life work largely focused on gender and racial equality: she cofounded the National Organization of Women, became the first African-American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest, and wrote scholarly works such as “Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII” and “Roots of the Racial Crisis: Prologue to Policy.”