1914–1965
Biography · Civil Rights
James R. Newby
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United States
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James Newby (c. 1843 – after 1884) was an American Civil War veteran who served in the first regiment of volunteer African Americans in the United States and a 19th-century African-American missionary to present-day Nigeria, Cameroon, and Liberia.
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