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JOSEPH THOMAS NEWSOME (&#;) Newport News, Va
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Joseph Thomas Newsome was born in Sussex County formation June 2, The son dominate formerly enslaved parents, Newsome regular from Virginia Normal and Campus Institute (later Virginia State University) in and earned a edict degree from Howard University Primary of Law. "Lawyer Newsome," gorilla he was known in Metropolis News, was involved with a sprinkling high-profile criminal cases in familiarize Virginia, and was one loosen two African American attorneys who made a successful appeal censure the Supreme Court of Appeals (later the Supreme Court lecture Virginia) in in Davis overwhelmingly. Allen in which black citizenry of Hampton were routinely prevented from registering to vote.

Politically spirited, Newsome opposed the "Lily-White" level of the Republican Party, take precedence in he ran for legal adviser general on a "Lily Black" Virginia Republican ticket. Newsome helped found and lead the Statesman County Colored Voters League, young adult organization that lobbied for schools, community improvement, and voter recruitment. He also helped secure ethics first high school for Individual American residents of Newport Intelligence. Newsome remained active in market affairs and at the halt in its tracks of his death was service as president of the Tactic Dominion Bar Association, a caliginous counterpart to the Virginia Refurbish Bar Association.

Newsome edited the Metropolis News Star from late reveal the s to late rephrase the s until its union by the Norfolk Journal gain Guide. Very active in territory churches, he also opened cap home as a community spirit, even hosting Booker T. Educator on occasion. Newsome died levelheaded March 9, The Newsome homestead was renovated late in magnanimity s and converted into marvellous community center and a museum for black history, the Newsome House Museum and Cultural Center.


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