Charles Harris Wesley
| Charles H. Wesley | |
|---|---|
| Born | Charles H. Wesley December 2, 1891 Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
| Died | August 16, 1987 (aged 95) District of Columbia |
| Occupation | Historian, Author |
| Nationality | Black American |
| Period | 1925–1987 |
| Genre | History |
| Notable works | Prince Hall Life and Legacy |
Charles Harris Wesley (December 2, 1891 – August 16, 1987) was an American historian, educator, minister, and author. He published more than 15 books on African-American history, served as president of Wilberforce University, and founding president of Central State University, both in Ohio.
Charles Wesley was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the only child of Matilda and Charles Snowden Wesley. He attended local schools as a boy, and went on to graduate in 1911 from Fisk University, a historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee. He earned a master's degree from Yale University in 1913. Continuing with his graduate work, in 1925, Wesley became the fourth African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity in 1928 by Wilberforce University.
Wesley became an ordained minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). He also had an academic career as a professor of history and wrote a total of more than 15 books on African-American history and political science. He served as the Dean of the Liberal Arts and the Graduate School at Howard University.
He won a Guggenheim Fellowship that enabled him to travel in 1931 to London, England, where on March 31 he was present with Harold Moody at the founding of the League of Coloured Peoples that was inspired in part by the NAACP, of which Wesley was a member.
In 1942 Wesley was called as President of Wilberforce University (an AME-affiliated university) in Wilberforce, Ohio, serving until 1947. That year, he founded Central State University across the street from Wilberforce. He served as its president until 1965, when he returned to Washington, D.C.
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