William Yancy Bell
William Yancy Bell received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1924 was a sometime follower of Marcus Garvey and became a Bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in 1933
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. He worked with W.E.B. Dubois and ordained Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was 13 years old on January 17, 1942.
