The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Margaret Bush Wilson

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Margaret Bush Wilson

12/17/2006

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2006.177

Association branch chief executive and real estate lawyer Margaret Bush Wilson (1919 - 2009 ) was formerly St. Louis NAACP chapter president and a Missouri NAACP president, and served nine terms as chairman of the national NAACP board. An accomplished attorney, she was instrumental in Shelley v. Kraemer, a 1948 Supreme Court ruling that held housing covenants unenforceable. Wilson was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 12/17/2006, in St. Louis, Missouri. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 9; Total Run Time: 04h 25m 30s

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Wilson, Margaret Bush, 1919-2009

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NAACP leader, activist attorney Margaret Bush Wilson was born Margaret Bush on January 30, 1919, in St. Louis, Missouri. Wilson's father, a railway postal clerk, James Thomas Bush was a 1900 Prairie View A&M graduate and her mother, Margaret Bernice Casey Bush taught kindergarten. Both of Wilson's parents were active in the local NAACP, with her mother serving as an executive board member. Wilson attended grade school on the grounds of Sumner High School where lifelong friend Julia Davis men...