Draft:Charles Newsome Otey

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Charles Newsome Otey (February 22, 1851 - ?) was a lawyer, journalist, and educator from North Carolina.

He graduated from Oberlin College Preparatory School. He entered Oberlin College as a freshman but left for Howard University from which he graduated in 1873 as valedictorian. He became a school principal in Washington D.C. and studied law. He married in 1877. He edited the People’s Advocate newspaper and later the Argus. He was the orator at an anniversary celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. A tribute to him was pibliahed in several newspapers.

He testified about Exodusters at the Voorhees Committee. He lived in Washington D.C.