By Associated Press
St. Louis, MO – Pioneering civil rights lawyer Margaret Bush Wilson, a former national chair of the NAACP, has died in her native St. Louis. She was 90.
Wilson had continued practicing law until June. Her son, Robert E. Wilson III, said she died Tuesday at Barnes-Jewish Hospital of multiple organ failure.
Wilson was born in 1919, one year before women won the right to
vote in 1920, and broke barriers in her career.
She was the second black woman to pass the Missouri Bar after
graduating from the former Lincoln Law School, which had been
created for blacks in Missouri.