Civil rights attorney Margaret Bush Wilson (1919-2009) was a complex individual who broke many barriers throughout her life and professional career. She was part of the legal team that fought housing covenants in the 1940s. She went on to work for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, U.S. Department of Agriculture and state of Missouri.
Priscilla Dowden-White, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, will give a talk titled “Margaret Bush Wilson and the Promise of America” from noon to 1:15 p.m. April 11 in the Public Policy Research Center Conference Room, 427 Social Sciences and Business Building on UMSL’s North Campus. Dowden-White will discuss her research into aspects of Wilson’s ideas on the roles of race, culture, economics and gender in the making of American democracy, as viewed primarily through Wilson’s personal diaries, correspondence and speeches.
The presentation is free and open to the public.
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