Pauli Murray challenged convention defiantly, joyfully, and valiantly but not without personal cost. For her, commonly-held behavior and attitudes were the convenient tyranny of the powerful. While her multiplicity of identity was struggle and a process, it was not confusion or chaos.

The Pauli Murray Project was established by Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Institute to address enduring inequalities and injustice in the Durham (NC) community. The site hosts an informative, high-resolution timeline.  Its Pauli Murray Center for Social and Justice is scheduled to open to the public in 2020.  Pauli Murray murals were created as part of Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life, a collaborative public-art project led by Brett Cook. Numerous events were held in Durham from 2007-2009.

On April 4, 2015, the New York Times reported that Pauli Murray’s family home in Raleigh, NC had been named a national treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [3] Its renovation campaign continues.   Howard University’s Symposium, Singing of a New American: Pauli Murray’s Legacy and Justice in the 21st Century (September 15, 2017) explored contemporary implications of her work. Yale University’s Pauli Murray College was opened to students in 2017. [4]  In 2020, they created the Pauli Murray Endowed Divinity Scholarship.