Fredrick L. McGhee
( October 28,1861-September 9,1912)
Fredrick L. McGhee. He was one of America’s first African-American lawyers a pioneer in early desegregation, anti-lynching, and civil rights cases, and a tireless activist and organizer for African American civil rights.In 1886, he married Mattie B. Crane. The couple had one daughter.
McGhee was also very active politically. McGhee was director of the legal bureau of the National Afro-American Council and a founder of the Niagara Movement. He was chosen to be a presidential elector by the Minnesota Republican party in the spring of 1892
At the age of 50 from pleurisy, three years after McGhee founded one of the NAACPBrances before the plan could be completed.