Meet It, Greet It and Defeat It
by Anna Christian

Actress, activist, community organizer, Frances E. Williams was one of the most colorful and knowledgeable stage and screen personalities of our time. Perhaps best known for the role of Miss Marie on the 1980’s television series "Frank’s Place." Williams’ acting career spanned more than seven decades beginning in the 1920’s at Karamu House the oldest black theatre in the U.S. to stage, screen, and television in the 1990’s. Her activism included not only fighting to expand and elevate the roles of minority actors in Hollywood, but also representing the World Peace Council at the first Angola Independence Celebration in 1975 and co-founding the Art Against Apartheid Movement in Los Angeles.