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  1. A song of faith and hope : the life of Frankie Muse Freeman

    Freeman, Frankie Muse, 1916-2018
    St. Louis, Mo. : Missouri Historical Society Press, c2003.

    Growing up in the Jim Crow-era South, Frankie Freeman learned lessons about discrimination. She walked places rather than take the segregated streetcar; she felt hurts and vowed privately never to forget. But in her loving family, she also learned positive lessons about living: work hard, get an education, fight injustice, and make a difference. Freeman took all these lessons to Hampton Institute, to Howard University law school, then to her career as a St. Louis civil rights attorney, winning a landmark victory in the area of fair housing. In 1964, she became the first woman appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, leaving in 1979 to serve as inspector general of the Community Services Administration. During these years, she was also St. Louis Housing Authority general counsel - and lost her job amid bitter controversy stirred up by a commission hearing in St. Louis County. This memoir tells the story of Frankie Freeman's life and career. There were high points, such as meetings with President Lyndon Johnson, historic commission hearings, and her national presidency of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. There were also difficult times, such as the illness and death of her husband and son. Through it all, she continued to fight for what she believed in; she kept her faith - and carried on.

  2. [Oral history of Frankie Muse Freeman].

    Freeman, Frankie Muse, 1916-2018
    Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, 2014.

    Oral history inverviews of Frankie Muse Freeman conducted by Nicole Colbert Botchway for the American Bar Association's Women Trailblazers in the Law Project.

    Online abawtp.law.stanford.edu

  3. The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Frankie Freeman

    Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

    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.

    Online HistoryMakers Digital Archive

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