Henry N. Jeter (October 7, 1851 – August 4, 1938) was a Baptist minister and social justice activist from Newport, Rhode Island.

He was minister at Shiloh Baptist Church in Newport for 42 years before founding a pair of organizations seeking to aid poor, urban African Americans, the Pastors and Laymen's Humane and Reform Association and the Jeter Movement of Race Relations and Social Service.

Later that year Riland was shot and killed by a soldier[1][2] After the Emancipation Proclamation, Henry served as a shoemaker apprentice and attended night school in Lynchburg, Virginia.

[1] Jeter was invited on January 8, 1875, to preach to the Shiloh Baptist Church in Newport, Rhode Island after the resignation of its previous pastor, Ananias Brown.

[5] Jeter became a prominent leader in the national Baptist church and African American civil rights organizations.

[11] That August he created an organization called the Pastors and Laymen's Humane and Reform Association for the improvement of the condition of blacks in big cities.

[16] In 1928, his focused shifted slightly, and he incorporated the Jeter Movement of Race Relations and Social Service along with Rufus L. Perry, Clinton Stevens, Mitchel Klupt, Francis W. Mandell Jr., Henry Barton Jacobs, Charles H. Brooks, and George W. Bacheller.

[1] They had twelve children, five sons and six daughters: Octavia, Leonard, Hiram, Nellie, Susie, Walter, May, Mary, Francis, Willie, Olive and Paul.