William Yancy Bell
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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 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[2]
At Yale he specialized in the Department of Semitic Languages and Letters.[3]
Dr. Bell was very active in civil rights issues as evidenced by his being a member of a Negro delegation to visit President Harry Truman to get him to integrate the U.S. Armed Forces.[4] He worked with W. E. B. Dubois and ordained Martin Luther King Jr. on January 17, 1942, when King was 13 years old.[4]Template:Additional citation needed
References
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- 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.
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