Fredrick Lamar McGhee (October 28, 1861 – September 9, 1912) was a successful criminal defense lawyer in Minnesota and a civil rights activist prominent in the National Afro-American Council and the Niagara Movement. McGhee, born a slave in Mississippi, became the first black attorney in Minnesota, a supporter, then critic, of Booker T. Washington and a close ally of and collaborator with W. E. B. Du Bois. McGhee died in 1912, at age 50, of complications from a blood clot. He is buried, with his wife and daughter, in Calvary Cemetery in St. Paul.