Aristide Elphonso Peter Albert Sr. (December 10, 1853–September 6, 1910),[1] was an American newspaper editor, theologian, professor, Methodist minister, physician, and surgeon.

[3] After the Union Army captured New Orleans during the American Civil War, he ran away from home and attended private school taught by William Barner.

[3] He served as the editor of the South-Western Christian Advocate newspaper from 1879 to 1880, and he was the first Black person to hold this role.

[3] On June 30, 1882, Albert spoke at the Central Church of New Orleans, in response to a 1879 speech by Sen. John Percival Jones of Nevada on the status and labor rights of Chinese immigrants to the United States.

[3] He died on September 6, 1910, of tuberculosis (or consumption) at age 57 at his home in the Carrollton neighborhood at 1420 Lowerline Street, New Orleans.