Joseph A. Booker

Former slave Joseph Albert Booker, educator and editor of the state’s Black Baptist newspaper, the Baptist Vanguard; circa 1924.

Older African-American man with mustache in suit and tie and glasses

Courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

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