Draft:J. Thomas Hewin
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J. Thomas Hewin was a lawyer. He worked as a janitor while in school.[1]
He was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.[2] He was president of the Richmond branch of the NAACP and wrote to W. E. B. Du Bois.[3] He represented a teacher in a suit seeking equal pay for "Colored" faculty.[4] He was president of the American Beneficial Insurance Company and Grand Shepherd with the Improved Order of the Shepherds and Daughters of Bethlehem.[2] He signed the Shepherds charter.[5]
He worked with J. Byron Hopkins.[6][7] Oliver W. Hill helped with their work on equalizing teacher pay.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Culp, Daniel Wallace (1902). Twentieth Century Negro Literature: Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro. J.L. Nichols & Company. ISBN 9780598621122.
- ^ a b "Viewing page 13 of 27 for project 24895 | Smithsonian Digital Volunteers". transcription.si.edu.
- ^ "Letter from J. Thomas Hewin to W.E.B. Du Bois, February 28, 1917". credo.library.umass.edu.
- ^ ""NAACP Carries Teacher Salary Fight into VA." (1938)". Encyclopedia Virginia.
- ^ "Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site".
- ^ a b Lau, Peter F. (December 7, 2004). From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown V. Board of Education and American Democracy. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3449-6 – via Google Books.
- ^ "ON THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIRGINIA STATE CONFERENCE NAACP | Congressman Bobby Scott". bobbyscott.house.gov. September 29, 2010.
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