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    William Ashbie Hawkins (August 2, 1862 – April 3, 1941) was a lawyer in Baltimore, Maryland, who litigated prominent civil rights cases. One of Baltimore's...
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  • Red Thunder Cloud (May 30, 1919 – January 8, 1996), born Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West, also known as Carlos Westez, was a singer, dancer, storyteller,...
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  • Hawkins (1895–1990), African-American folk artist Bill Hawkins (cricketer) (1861–1930), New Zealand cricketer and Member of Parliament William Ashbie...
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  • Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West was an African American from Rhode Island. The grandson of prominent attorney and community leader, William Ashbie Hawkins, West...
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    highly respected trial lawyer as well as a campaign organizer for W. Ashbie Hawkins, Al Smith, Herbert O'Conor and the Democratic Party in Maryland. In...
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    Woodbourne Heights Cab Calloway Kevin Clash Joe Gans Ken Harris William Ashbie Hawkins Billie Holiday Angel McCoughtry DeRay Mckesson Enolia McMillan Sharon...
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  • himself as a Navajo. Red Thunder Cloud (1919–1996) – Born Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West, also known as Carlos Westez, a singer, dancer, storyteller, and...
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    lexicon is presented below. Red Thunder Cloud, an impostor, born Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West, claimed to be Catawba and the last speaker of the Catawba language...
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    associations. He was an acquaintance of Booker T. Washington and W. Ashbie Hawkins. Pratt was born to Louis and Clara Pratt in Baltimore, Maryland. He...
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  • president E. T. Morris of Massachusetts, 5thh vice president William Ashbie Hawkins of Maryland, 6th vice president George Henry White of Philadelphia,...
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  • Maryland bar, where he ran a practice with William Ashbie Hawkins until Hawkins died in 1941. Hawkins purchased the residential property of 1834 McCulloh...
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    Baltimore, she secured the services of local African American attorney W. Ashbie Hawkins and sued the railroad. She won her case and was awarded damages totalling...
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    Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania. In 1922, Baltimore attorney William Ashbie Hawkins told the Baltimore Afro-American that Waring was “a brilliant advocate...
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  • authority to hear complaints about service. In December 1911, William Ashbie Hawkins represented several plaintiffs before the PSC protesting against the...
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  • civil rights. Maryland civil rights advocates such as attorney William Ashbie Hawkins represented several plaintiffs before the Maryland Public Service Commission...
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    boxing's first African American World Champion (1901-1908). William Ashbie Hawkins (1862-1941), early African American bishop in the African Methodist...
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    Delegates. The proposed nominees included Whitfield Winsey, William Ashbie Hawkins and Walker W. Lewis, a grocer. Only Winsey came close to nomination...
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    term in office, but was beaten by Republican Ovington Weller. William Ashbie Hawkins (Independent) George D. Iverson Jr., Democratic Delegate from Baltimore...
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