John Andrew Singleton (July 30, 1895 - August 1, 1970) was a civil rights activist, dentist, and member of the Nebraska House of Representatives.
He was a member of Omaha's Du Bois Dramatic Club where he starred in William Ward Russ's "The Strike, Or Under the Shadow of a Crime".
[18] He also played an important role in support of black living in North Platte who faced mob violence in that city after a police officer was killed on July 15, 1926.
He, along with Harrison J. Pinkett and E W Killingsworth worked closely with the governor in reducing tension and allowing the people to return to their homes.
[19] He was endorsed by Governor Arthur J. Weaver and Mayor James Dahlman and received the support of Emmett Jay Scott for minister of the US to Liberia.
[6] On the evening of April 16, 1930, two men placed an iron cross covered with oil-soaked burlap on the lawn of the Singleton home and set it afire.
[20] In the period before that date he had presided over a visit and speech by national NAACP secretary, William Pickens, and was campaigning again in support of the square seven ticket, but no explicit cause was identified and the perpetrators were not caught.
[22] In 1931, a Negro regiment was stationed at Fort Omaha in the Miller Park neighborhood to great protest from whites in the area.
[7] For his activism, especially in support of housing for the poor black of the city, he was called "militant dentist of Jamaica"[28] and he was an important member of the 1941-1947 March on Washington Movement and worked closely with its leaders from the NAACP such as Walter Francis White.