As a role-player of the NAACP Legal Defense team, he won several personal injury lawsuits and settled high-profile cases working alongside his Howard University School of Law brothers and friends, Oliver Hill, Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood Robinson, Martin A. Newsome was the lead attorney in the noteworthy Richmond 34 case, and the interstate travel case of Boynton, a Freedom Rider. Years of combing through hundreds of articles and other personal documents lying dormant in a "blue suitcase" given to her at 16-years old by her mother helped Clarencia connect with her father. Civil Rights attorney Clarence Newsome died when his daughter Clarencia was six years old. Photo published in local New Jersey newspaper when Newsome family won a family vacation to Florida. The Newsome Family.Early Years: Clarencia 8 months old in her mother Cora's lap, Sheila in her daddy Clarence's arms.
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