J. A. Arneaux, 1887. African-American Shakespearean actor, journalist and civil rights activist John A. Arneaux was editor and owner of the New York Enterprise which had the largest circulation of any black newspaper in the USA at that time. He was leader of the Astor Place Tragedy company, an African-American theatre troupe. From "Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising" by William J. Simmons.
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