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Joseph Robert Booker (or J. R. Booker; September 19, 1893 – July 31, 1960) was an African-American rights leader, lawyer, and politician from Arkansas. Booker was born on September 19, 1893, in Helena, Arkansas .
Dec 12, 2023 · Joseph Robert Booker was a Little Rock (Pulaski County) lawyer and a member of one of the most prominent African American families in the city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During his practice spanning from the 1920s to 1950s, Booker took on cases primarily relating to civil rights.
May 31, 2023 · In one of his earliest cases, in 1919, Joseph Booker took on the death sentences handed down to twelve African American defendants in a race war that erupted near Elaine in Phillips County.
Booker worked with Scipio Jones in defending Black defendants arrested following the “race riots” near Elaine, Arkansas, in 1919. He was an early member of the first Arkansas branch of the NAACP in Little Rock in 1924.
Feb 28, 2024 · In a poignant display of respect and admiration, hundreds of Knoxville community members including state and local leaders came together to pay homage to the unparalleled legacy of Robert J....
Joseph Robert Booker (or J. R. Booker; September 19, 1893 – July 31, 1960) was an African-American rights leader, lawyer, and politician from Arkansas.
Dec 20, 2023 · Joseph Albert Booker—noted editor, educator, and community leader—was for four decades a prominent leader in Arkansas racial relations and a pioneer in African American education in the state. Joseph A. Booker was born into slavery on December 26, 1859, in Old Portland, east of modern Portland (Ashley County).
