Pauli Murray and the March on Washington

Recently, I wrote about how as I reread March and Darkroom I started thinking about the gutter within these texts, the moments and individuals that the texts do not have the space or the scope to cover. I wrote about Lillian Smith’s connection to the movement, a connection that does not fit in with the narrative scope of either March or Darkroom, both memoirs chronicling the experiences of John Lewis and Lila Quintero Weaver respectively. Even though Smith wouldn’t appear, the more I learn about other individuals in the movement, I ask myself, why couldn’t a panel or page illuminate…