Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, (brother-in-law) Mary Evans Wilson (1866 – March 28, 1928) was one of Boston's leading civil rights activists.

She was a founding member of the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the founder of the Women's Service Club.

[2] Years later, her mother delivered an address at Harpers Ferry at the second annual meeting of the Niagara Movement, a civil rights group founded by W. E. B.

[1] Mary's sister, Anna Evans Murray, was a teacher, civic leader, and early proponent of free kindergarten classes for black children.

Anna's husband, Daniel Murray, was a Library of Congress employee whose duties included obtaining copies of African American-authored books for the "Exhibit of Negro Authorship" at the Paris Exposition of 1900.

Other speakers that day included Julia Ward Howe, Mary C. Leavitt, Alice Freeman Palmer, and Florida Ruffin Ridley.

[5] In 1916 she led an investigation into discrimination at the New England Sanitarium, and a campaign to persuade Boston's department stores to hire black saleswomen.