ST. LOUIS (AP) ? Pioneering civil rights lawyer Margaret Bush Wilson, a former national chair of the NAACP, died this week. She was 90.
She died Tuesday of multiple organ failure, her son, Robert E. Wilson III, said.
Wilson, whose life passion was being a lawyer, had continued practicing law until June. She was the second black woman to pass the Missouri Bar after graduating from the now-defunct Lincoln University School of Law, a “separate but equal” institution that had been created for blacks in Missouri.