William Yancy Bell

William Yancy Bell (or William Yancey Bell) (February 23, 1887 – April 10, 1962) received a Ph.D.[1] from Yale University in 1924 was a sometime follower of Marcus Garvey and became a Bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in 1933(?)[2]

Dr. Bell was very active in civil rights issues as evidenced by his being a member of a Negro delegation to visit President Truman to get him to integrate the U.S. Armed Forces.[3] He worked with W.E.B. Dubois and ordained Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was 13 years old on January 17, 1942[3].

References

1. https://archive.org/details/MN41890ucmf_0
2. https://www3.amherst.edu/~aardoc/Biblio.html
3. https://www.researchgate.net/project/The-life-and-times-of-Bishop-William-Yancy-Bell-Sr-PhD

• Bell WY. THE MUTAWAKKILI OF AS-SUYUTI. New Haven: Yale University, 1924
• Bardoplph R. The Negro Vanguard. New York: Rinehart & Co, Inc., 1959;
• Burkett R.K. Black Redemption: Churchmen Speak for the Garvey Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978.