Civil rights lawyer, NAACP leader dies in St. Louis

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 | 5:05 p.m. CDT; updated 8:07 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, August 12, 2009

ST. LOUIS — Pioneering civil rights lawyer Margaret Bush Wilson, a former national chairwoman of the NAACP, has died in her native St. Louis. She was 90.

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