Robert Queen

Robert Queen (July 4, 1884 - September 1, 1960) was an African-American attorney who litigated several pivotal Trenton, N.J. Civil Rights cases, including Hedgepeth and Williams v. Board of Education.

Robert Queen was born on July 4, 1884 in Washington, D.C. to Charles A. Queen (b. 1855, Anne Arundel County, MD) and Cornelia Walker (b. 1860, King and Queen County, VA). Queen attended the M Street High School and was a cadet there from 1900 to 1902. According to a Feb. 3, 1922 Trenton Evening Times article, Queen moved from Washington, D.C. to Essex County, N.J. in 1902 and took evening business studies until 1909 when he clerked for attorney A.B. Cosey in Newark.

In 1911, Queen was appointed stenographer to the Emancipation Proclamation Commission, a group that planned New Jersey's participation in the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Emancipation Proclamation, to be held in Philadelphia in 1913. According to an Asbury Park Press announcement dated Aug. 6, 1912, the purpose of the commission was to to show the "industrial, educational, and religious progress of the colored inhabitants of the state in the last half century."

While at the commission, Queen was offered and accepted a position as stenographer in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, where he served for six years and became an expert on laws pertaining to the Native American. During this time, Queen enrolled at Howard University School of Law in 1913 and received his LL.B in 1915. He was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia in 1918.

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As a young man, he played on Negro League baseball teams the Virginia Giants of Montclair and the Newark Giants.

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