Moses Freeman talks about issues in this file photo.Chattanooga and District 8 need the steady hand and thoughtful integrity of Moses Freeman.
A longtime civic leader, former city administrator and developer here, Freeman has done much to promote equity and diversity in Chattanooga. He was a teacher at Howard in the 1960s. He’s been a Boys Club director. He was a program analyst for the Model Cities project – Chattanooga’s first look at metro government. For a time he headed the city’s Neighborhood Services Department, as well as the Community Impact Fund. And in “retirement” he became a developer and built homes in the Martin Luther King neighborhood.
Now, at 74, he wants to bring all that experience to bear as a council representative for the beleaguered District 8 neighborhoods of Bushtown, Avondale, Amnicola, East Lake, East Chattanooga and Oak Grove.
Those communities, he says, are filled with boarded-up buildings that breed crime and fear. And residents there currently feel they have no voice in city government.
“They need a catalyst,” he said. And Freeman wants to be one.