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John A. Arneaux

1855–

United States

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John A. Arneaux (born 1855) was an American Shakespearean actor and journalist in New York City. From 1884 to 1886 he was editor and owner of the New York Enterprise which had the largest circulation of any African American newspaper in the country at that time. As a journalist and a civil rights activist, he was widely respected.

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