
Frankie Franklin-Foxx was one of the first women in the first support group created in Chicago in 1988 for women living with HIV and AIDS.
“She was one of the longest-lived members of that early group of women who came together and said, ‘We have to take care of the each other, speak out, support each other,” said Catherine Christeller, founder of the support group and executive director of Chicago Women’s AIDS Project.