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A new book about Pauli Murray ’45 and her friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt reveals their similarities: both smart, inquisitive idealists. Ahead of her time, Murray fought for the rights of a black sharecropper on death row and co-founded the National Organization for Women.