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'''William Yancy Bell''' (or William Yancey Bell) (February 23, 1887 &ndash; April 10, 1962) was an American bishop. He received a Ph.D.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/MN41890ucmf_0|title = The Mutawakkili of as-Suyuti &#91;microform&#93;}}</ref> from Yale University in 1924 was a sometime follower of Marcus Garvey and became a bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church {{circa|1933}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www3.amherst.edu/~aardoc/Biblio.html|title = AARDOC: African-American Religious History, 1919–1939}}</ref>

At Yale he specialized in the Department of Semitic Languages and Letters.<ref>Negro Yearbook by Monroe Work Tuskegee Institute 1925 page 49</ref>

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.<ref name="gate">{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/project/The-life-and-times-of-Bishop-William-Yancy-Bell-Sr-PhD |title=The life and times of Bishop William Yancy Bell Sr., Ph.D. |author=Carl C. Bell |via=ResearchGate}}</ref> He worked with W. E. B. Dubois and ordained Martin Luther King Jr. on January 17, 1942, when King was 13 years old.<ref name="gate"/>{{additional citation needed|date=October 2022}}

==References== {{Reflist}} *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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