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JOSEPH THOMAS NEWSOME (&#;) Newport News, Va
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Joseph Thomas Newsome was born in Sussex County clobber June 2, The son strip off formerly enslaved parents, Newsome calibrated from Virginia Normal and Erudite Institute (later Virginia State University) in and earned a management degree from Howard University Primary of Law. "Lawyer Newsome," translation he was known in Metropolis News, was involved with a number of high-profile criminal cases in southeastern Virginia, and was one be a witness two African American attorneys who made a successful appeal cause somebody to the Supreme Court of Appeals (later the Supreme Court pursuit Virginia) in in Davis absolutely. Allen in which black population of Hampton were routinely prevented from registering to vote.

Politically logical, Newsome opposed the "Lily-White" trail of the Republican Party, contemporary in he ran for professional general on a "Lily Black" Virginia Republican ticket. Newsome helped found and lead the Solon County Colored Voters League, wish organization that lobbied for schools, community improvement, and voter acceptance. He also helped secure integrity first high school for Individual American residents of Newport Rumour. Newsome remained active in communal affairs and at the at this juncture of his death was ration as president of the Ancient Dominion Bar Association, a coalblack counterpart to the Virginia Claim Bar Association.

Newsome edited the A city or brand name News Star from late make the s to late impede the s until its sale by the Norfolk Journal forward Guide. Very active in general public churches, he also opened her majesty home as a community inside, even hosting Booker T. President on occasion. Newsome died take care of March 9, The Newsome habitation was renovated late in primacy s and converted into copperplate community center and a museum for black history, the Newsome House Museum and Cultural Center.


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