Channing Heggie Tobias

Channing Heggie Tobias (February 1, 1882 in Augusta, Georgia – November 5, 1961 in Manhattan, NY) was a civil rights activist and Spingarn Medalist. In 1946 he was appointed to the President's Committee on Civil Rights.

He received his BA from Paine College in 1902 and went on to Drew Seminary. From 1911 to 1946 he was active in the YMCA and race-related issues involving it. In addition he was on the Board of Trustees of the NAACP and later became its chairman^[1]

Tobias was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity^[2]

Literature

Autobiographical essay in Finkelstein, L. (ed.) Thirteen Americans: Their Spiritual Autobiographies, Institute for Religious and Social Science, 1953, pp. 177-200

Web sources

External links

Time obituary (brief)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Leaders

Presidents/CEOs
(executive secretaries 1910–77;
executive directors 1977–96)

Frances Blascoer (1910–11)
Mary White Ovington (1911–12)
Mary Childs Nerney (1912–16)
Mary White Ovington (1916)
Royall Freeman Nash (1916–17)
James Weldon Johnson (1917–18)
John R. Shillady (1918–20)
James Weldon Johnson (1920–31)
Walter Francis White (1931–55)
Roy Wilkins (1955–77)
Benjamin Hooks (1977–92)
Benjamin Chavis Muhammad (1993–94)
Earl Shinhoster (1994–96)
Kweisi Mfume (1996–2004)
Dennis Courtland Hayes (2005)
Bruce S. Gordon (2005–7)
Dennis Courtland Hayes (2007–8)
Benjamin Jealous (2007–13)
Lorraine Miller (interim, 2013–2014)
Cornell William Brooks (2014–present)

Elected presidents (1909–96, abolished)	Moorfield Storey (1909–29) Joel Elias Spingarn (1930–39) Arthur B. Spingarn (1940–65) Kivie Kaplan (1966–75) William Montague Cobb (1976–82) James Kemp (1983) Enolia McMillan (1984–90) Hazel N. Dukes (1990–92) Rupert Richardson (1992–96)

Chairpersons

William English Walling (1910–11)
Oswald Garrison Villard (1911–14)
Joel Elias Spingarn (1914–19)
Mary White Ovington (1919–34)
Louis T. Wright (1934–53)
Channing Heggie Tobias (1953–60)
Robert C. Weaver (1960–61)
Stephen Gill Spottswood (1961–75)
Margaret Bush Wilson (1975–83)
Kelly Alexander (1983–84)
William Gibson (1985–95)
Myrlie Evers-Williams (1995–98)
Julian Bond (1998–2010)
Roslyn Brock (2010–present)