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     Now completed, The Souls at Sea Quilt will be donated during the on-land portion of the ceremony at 1 p.m., Saturday, August 19, 2023, at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD. USC members and their guests will then take to their sailboats and the waters to conduct the second portion, an on-water ancestral libation and remembrance ceremony.

     Two years later, she opened her law office in the Jefferson Bank Building and immediately began her long participation in the Civil Rights Movement. In the NAACP’s Brewton v. the Board of Education of St. Louis in 1949, Freeman, Sidney Redmond, Robert Witherspoon, and Henry Espy were the attorneys who argued that case to victory. In 1954, the same year of Brown v. the Board of Education, she was the lead attorney for the landmark NAACP case, Davis et al v. the St. Louis Housing Authority, ending racial discrimination in housing.