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===Early years===
===Early years===
The son of Joseph "Papa" Newman and the former Florence Knox, Newman graduated at the age of twenty in 1941 from the then [Segregation|segregated]] black McKinley Senior High Schoo] in the capital city of Baton Rouge. He attended the then all-black Southern University, at which he was a member of the Reserve Corps program. He was q, since Exxon,] service station in Baton Rouge.<ref name=obit/>
The son of Joseph "Papa" Newman and the former Florence Knox, Newman graduated at the age of twenty in 1941 from the then [Segregation|segregated]] black McKinley Senior High Schoo] in the capital city of Baton Rouge. He attended the then all-black Southern University, at which he was a member of the Reserve Corps program. He operated an Esso service station, since Exxon.<ref name=obit/>
===Political arena===
===Political arena===