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William Yancy Bell (or William Yancey Bell) (February 23, 1887 – April 10, 1962) was an American bishop. He 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. 1933.^[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][additional citation(s) needed]}

References

• 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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