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Frankie Muse Freeman is one of the great women of our time. At a time when others tried to place limits on her aspirations, she chose to follow her dreams and help lead the fight against discrimination.

Freeman is a graduate of Hampton University and a graduate of the Howard University Law School.

In , after writing several law firms and not hearing back from them, she decided to establish her own private practice.

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She started her practice with pro bono, divorce and criminal cases. After two years, Freeman began her work in civil rights when she became legal counsel to the NAACP legal team that filed suit against the St. Louis Board of Education in In , Freeman was lead attorney for the landmark NAACP case Davis et al.

v. the St. Louis Housing Authority which ended legal racial discrimination in public housing in St. Louis, Missouri.

Freeman worked as staff attorney for the St. Louis Land Clearance and Housing Authorities from until , first as associate general co