Emanuel K. Love (July 27, 1850 – April 24, 1900) was a minister and leader in the Baptist church from Savannah, Georgia.

He was pastor of one of the largest churches in the country and was a prominent activist for black civil rights and anti-lynching laws.

He resigned this post and returned to the position of missionary for the State on October 1, 1881, this time under the auspices of the American Baptist Publication Society.

On October 1, 1885 he resigned to accept another charge, pastor to the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia.

[4] In 1887, Love, White, and James C. Bryan were noted for calling for black leadership at the Atlanta Baptist Seminary.

In 1888, Love was elected president of the colored Baptist Foreign Mission convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

M. W. Gilbert of Nashville was elected vice president, J. J. Spellman of Jackson, Mississippi secretary and J. E. Farrier of Richmond, Virginia treasurer.

In 1889, he was among a delegation to travel from Georgia to attend the annual meeting of the black Baptist Foreign Mission Convention in Indianapolis.

White passengers and rail conductors were unhappy and sent a telegram down the line informing people about the infraction.

A committee of nearly twenty men were selected to go to Washington and demand protection for blacks in the South taking special notice of the attack on Love and Spratling.

[13] In 1890, Love and Richard R. Wright Sr. were in a dispute with William White, Judson Lyons, Henry A. Rucker, and especially John H. Deveaux, who was in control of Georgia's African American Republic Party machinery.

Lyons, Rucker, and Deveaux were all supported by patronage of Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute and were identified with light-skinned elites, while Love and Wright (and Charles T. Walker) represented a "black" or "darker-skinned" faction, although skin color was not as important as political allegiance and ideology.

[16] About this time William E. Holmes, before an opponent of Love and White, changed his position and supported the separatist cause.

In 1895, he was corresponding secretary of the Colored Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, with E. C. Morris president and S. T. Clanton and J. L. Dart as fellow officers.

[3] The Augusta Sentinel Newspaper was a Republican paper cofounded by Richard R. Wright St, Rev.

[21] As a part of his journalism, he helped found the publication group for the black National Baptist Convention.