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Desegregation can also result from additional suits brought by Negro plaintiffs against school boards in Newport News, Fairfax County, Arlington County, and Norfolk.
The heavy cruiser USS Newport News was designated flagship for the blockade, with the USS Leary ( DD-879 ) as Newport News destroyer escort.
* Colonial ( Amtrak 1976 ), an Amtrak train that began running between Newport News, Virginia and New York in 1976.
Newport News Shipbuilding ( NNS ), originally Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company ( NNS & DD ), was the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States prior to being purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2001.
Known as Northrop Grumman Newport News ( NGNN ), and later Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Newport News ( NGSB-NN ), the company is located in Newport News, Virginia, and often participates in projects with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, also located adjacent to Hampton Roads.
In March 2011 Newport News Shipbuilding, along with the shipbuilding sector of Northrop Grumman spun-off to form a new company called Huntington Ingalls Industries
In 1881, the Peninsula Extension of the C & O was built from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach a new coal pier on Hampton Roads in Warwick County near the small unincorporated community of Newport News Point.
However, building the railroad and coal pier was only the first part of Huntington's dreams for Newport News.
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