James H. N. Waring

James H. N. Waring is a little-documented author whose known published work is Work of the Colored Law and Order League, Baltimore, Md. The Library of Congress lists that book as published in Cheyney, Pennsylvania, in 1908 by the Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race.

That book centers on the efforts of Baltimore's Colored Law and Order League and is remembered today as a piece of local and African American social history. It stands out less as a personal memoir than as a record of organized reform, showing how Black leaders responded to dangerous social conditions and pressed for civic change.

Because biographical information about Waring is scarce in the readily available sources, much of his life remains unclear. Still, his surviving publication gives him a place in the historical record as a writer who helped preserve the story of Black community activism in the early 1900s.