The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Frankie Freeman.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 11 min., 53 sec.)) : sound, color
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2006.183
Subjects

Other author/creatorFreeman, Frankie Muse, 1916-2018 interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Frankie Freeman
Portion of title Honorable Frankie Freeman
Abstract 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.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded St. Louis, Missouri 2006 December 19.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2006.183 HistoryMakers

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