Joseph Albert Booker (1859–1926), was an American newspaper editor, academic administrator, educator, minister, activist, and Black community leader.

[1] He was the child of Mary (née Punchardt) and Albert Booker, both were enslaved by John P. Fisher of the Bayou Bartholomew plantation.

[1] At the end of the American Civil War around 1865, young Booker was placed in the care of his maternal grandmother, Emma Fisher.

[1] He served from 1911 to 1913 as Little Rock's Colored Vice Commission, formed to clean up the city’s red light districts.

[1] In 1919 after the Elaine massacre, Booker was appointed to the Arkansas Commission on Race Relations by Governor Charles Hillman Brough, a platform he used to promote “interracial justice” for all of the state’s citizens.