Claim: Sara Alderman Murphy was a civil rights lawyer who joined the Women’s Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools and  founded a branch of the Panel of American Women (PAW)  in 1963.
Evidence: Sara Alderman Murphy (June 17, 1924 – April 15, 1995) was a civil rights activist living in Little Rock, Arkansas during the school integration attempts in the 1950s. She earned her BA in Social Studies and English from Vanderbilt University in 1945 and a MS in Journalism from Columbia University.