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Joseph Robert Booker
1893–1960
United States
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Joseph Robert Booker (or J. R. Booker; September 19, 1893 – July 31, 1960) was an African-American civil rights leader, lawyer, and politician from Arkansas. Booker was born on September 19, 1893, in Helena, Arkansas. His father, Rev.
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