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Margaret Bush Wilson, WUSTL trustee emerita, civil rights attorney, dies at 90

Margaret Bush Wilson, WUSTL trustee emerita, prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the first woman of color to chair the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, after a short illness. She was 90.
August 14, 2009

Obituary: Margaret Bush Wilson, WUSTL trustee emerita, civil rights attorney, 90

Margaret Bush WilsonMargaret Bush Wilson, WUSTL trustee emerita, prominent civil rights attorney in the 1960s and the first woman of color to chair the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), died Tuesday, Aug. 11, after a short illness. She was 90.
August 12, 2009
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