Thomas J. Calloway
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A.K.A.
Thomas Junius Calloway
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Death:
1930
Residences
Thomas J. Calloway House
The details
Biography
Thomas Junius Calloway (1866-1930) was an African-American journalist, educator and lawyer.
Calloway graduated from Fisk University in 1889, where he was an undergraduate classmate of W. E. B. Du Bois. He went on to attend the law school at Howard University earning a law degree in 1894.
He was appointed as the US Special Commissioner in charge of The Exhibit of American Negroes set up in the United States pavilion at the Exposition Universelle held in Paris in 1900.
His home, the Thomas J. Calloway House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.