Fredrick Lamar McGhee (October 28, 1861 – September 9, 1912) was an African-American criminal defense lawyer and civil rights activist.

Du Bois, McGhee would leave the National Afro-American Council to help co-found the Niagara Movement.

His father, from Blount County, Tennessee, was literate, rare for an enslaved person in those times, and later became a lay Baptist preacher.

As an attorney, McGhee successfully won clemency from President Benjamin Harrison for Lewis Carter, a Black soldier who had been falsely accused of a crime.

[6] McGhee participated in every local and national civil rights movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

McGhee signed onto a letter denouncing McKinley and endorsing Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1900 presidential election, which stated:"We hold that the policy known as imperialism is hostile to liberty and leans toward the destruction of government by the people themselves.

We insist that the subjugation of any people is "criminal aggression" and is a pronounced departure from the first principles taught and declared by Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and all the great statesmen who have guided the country through as many dangers of the past.

"[2]After moving to Saint Paul, McGhee converted from Baptism to Catholicism at a time when the vast majority of African Americans were Protestants.

[3] McGhee joined Ireland in the founding of St Peter Claver Catholic Church, a parish in Saint Paul which exists to this day.