Frankie Muse Freeman

The Honorable Frankie Muse Freeman (born Marie Frankie Muse, November 24, 1916 in Danville, Virginia) is an American civil rights attorney, and the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1964 to 1979), a federal fact-finding body that investigates complaints alleging discrimination. Freeman was instrumental in creating the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights founded in 1982, and has been a practicing attorney in state and federal courts for nearly sixty years. In 2007, Freeman was inducted in the "International Civil Rights Walk of Fame" at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta, Georgia, for her leadership role in the Civil Rights Movement. Born to William Brown Muse and Maude...