Emanuel Handy, sometimes recorded as Emmanuel Handy, was a soldier, constable, farmer, and politician who lived in Mississippi. He was a delegate at the 1868 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and served in the Mississippi House of Representatives. He was African American.

Handy was born in Copiah County, Mississippi.^[1]

He served as a sergeant in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was a delegate to Mississippi's 1868 Constitutional Convention, a farmer, a constable, and a state legislator in Mississippi.^[2][1] He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, serving in office from 1870 to 1873.^[1]

He died in 1922 aged 85.^[3] One of fellow African American Mississippi state legislator George Charles Sr.]]'s sons, Arthur Charles, attended his funeral.^[4]

• African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900