Sara Alderman Murphy (June 17, 1924  April 15, 1995) was a civil rights lawyer from  Wartrace, Tennessee who joined the Womens Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) and  founded a branch of the Panel of American Women (PAW)  in 1963.
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 was born in Wartrace, Tennessee. Sara Murphy joined the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) after the attempt to integrate Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. In 1963 she founded a branch of the Panel of American Women (PAW) in Little Rock and became vice-president of the national PAW from 1971 to 1974. 
