Draft:The Emancipator (Alabama newspaper)

William J. Robinson, Emancipator and The Emancipator should link here

The Emancipator was a newspaper in Montgomery, Alabama from 1918-1920. J. Edward McCall (September 2, 1880-1962), who was alos a poet, was chief editor. William J. Robinson / W. J. Robinson. Robinson ran the Montgomery Branch of Alabama Penny and Savings Bank with Victor Tulane.

It was preceded by Robert C. Judkin's newspaper in Montgomery, the Colored Alabanian (1907-1916). A year after he left for New Jersey, The Emancipator was established. It included ilages of Abraham Lincoln and Booker T. Washington and was dedicated to people "fettered by visible or invisible chains" and to emancipating the "Negro" from poverty, illiteracy, sin, sickness and human injustice.

It covered Walker Café and the Negro Folk Song Festival. McCall left Alabama with his family after threats from the Ku Klux Klan. He settled in Detroit, Michigan where he worked at newspapers.