Paul Murray marched with Martin Luther King in the 1963 Detroit “Walk to Freedom.” As a member of the University of Detroit Human Relations Club, he spoke to high school students about civil rights. He spent the summer of 1966 working with the American Friends Service Committee in Madison County, Mississippi. After earning his Ph.D. in Sociology, he taught at Millsaps College in Mississippi and Siena College. The author of numerous scholarly articles on Catholic participation in the Civil Rights Movement, he also wrote Seeing Jesus in the Eyes of the Oppressed, a book about Franciscans working for social justice.