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William Yancy Bell (or William Yancey Bell) (February 23, 1887 – April 10, 1962) received a Ph.D.^[1] fromYale University in 1924 was a sometime follower ofMarcus Garvey and became abishop of theChristian 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 PresidentHarry Truman to get him to integrate the U.S. Armed Forces.^[4] He worked withW. E. B. Dubois and ordainedMartin Luther King Jr. on January 17, 1942, when King was 13 years old.^[4]^{[additional citation(s) needed]}

References

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^"The Mutawakkili of as-Suyuti [microform]".
^"AARDOC: African-American Religious History, 1919–1939".
^Negro Yearbook byMonroe Work Tuskegee Institute 1925 page 49
^^a ^bCarl C. Bell."The life and times of Bishop William Yancy Bell Sr., Ph.D." – viaResearchGate.

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.

U.S.Black church denominations and leaders

General themes

Methodist

African Methodist Episcopal Church	John Adams Sr. Richard Allen Sarah Allen Benjamin W. Arnett George Lincoln Blackwell Morris Brown Jamal Harrison Bryant John Richard Bryant Richard H. Cain Archibald Carey Jr. Daniel Coker James H. Cone James Levert Davis Jordan Winston Early Orishatukeh Faduma Floyd Flake Carolyn Tyler Guidry Sarah E. Gorham William H. Heard Reginald Jackson Henrietta Phelps Jeffries Absalom Jones Ben Kinchlow Vashti Murphy McKenzie Biddy Mason Lena Doolin Mason Robert Meacham Lyman S. Parks Daniel Payne Charles H. Pearce Clementa C. Pinckney William Paul Quinn Reverdy Cassius Ransom Richard Henry Singleton Charles Spencer Smith Theophilus Gould Steward Henry McNeal Turner William Tecumseh Vernon D. Ormonde Walker Lewis Woodson
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	William H. Day Julia A. J. Foote James Walker Hood Thomas James Singleton T. Jones John Kinard Jermain Wesley Loguen John E. Price William Henry Singleton John Bryan Small Mary J. Small Jeffery Tribble James Varick Alexander Walters
A.U.M.P. Church	Peter Spencer
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church	William Yancy Bell William H. Miles

Baptist

Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship	Paul S. Morton
Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention	Clinton Caldwell Boone Lott Cary
National Baptist Convention, USA	Boise Kimber Stewart Cleveland Cureton Joseph H. Jackson T. J. Jemison Willie James Jennings Henry Lyons Benjamin Mays W. J. Simmons
National Baptist Convention of America	R. H. Boyd
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America	S. M. Lockridge
Progressive National Baptist Convention	Ralph Abernathy William Augustus Jones Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Gardner C. Taylor
United American Free Will Baptist Church	Benjamin Randall