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Ashbie Hawkins

1862–1941

United States

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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 and was one of Baltimore's first African American lawyers.

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