Draft:J. Thomas Hewin

Sr. or Jr.?

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J. Thomas Hewin was a lawyer. He worked as a janitor while in school.

He was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. He was president of the Richmond branch of the NAACP and wrote to W. E. B. Du Bois. He represented a teacher in a suit seeking equal pay for "Colored" faculty. He was president of the American Beneficial Insurance Company and Grand Shepherd with the Improved Order of the Shepherds and Daughters of Bethlehem. He signed the Shepherds charter.

He worked with J. Byron Hopkins. Oliver W. Hill helped with their work on equalizing teacher pay.