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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Frankie Freeman
The Honorable Frankie Freeman
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| Other authors / contributors: | Freeman, Frankie Muse, 1916-2018, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded St. Louis, Missouri 2006 December 19.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Lawyer Frankie Muse Freeman was born on November 24, 1916 in Danville, Virginia. She attended Hampton Institute between 1933 and 1936. In 1944, Freeman was admitted to Howard University Law School and graduated second in her class in 1947. Freeman was a part of the legal brain trust in the NAACP's 1949 Brewton v. the Board of Education case in St. Louis, Missouri. She took the case all the way to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, where she and her team were ultimately victorious. In 1954, Freeman was the lead attorney for the landmark NAACP case Davis et al v. the St. Louis Housing Authority. In 1964, she was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson as the first female member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She authored A Song of Faith and Hope: The Life of Frankie Muse Freeman and was president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
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