Howard Holman Bell (March 13, 1913 – January 14, 2012) was a scholar of African American history. His book ''Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Negro Conventions, 1830-1864'' was published in 1969. He wrote an introduction to the 1970 edition of ''Black Separatism in the Caribbean, 1860''. Several of his articles were published in the ''

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, and

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. He was born in

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, the son of Ernest Paul Bell and Irene Lucy Bell. He graduated from the

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, in 1941 with an undergraduate degree and served in the Navy in

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. He received a graduate degree in 1947 from U.C. Berkeley and a PhD from

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in 1953. His thesis was a survey of the

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. He retired from teaching as a professor of Black history at

in 1978. He helped Floyd John Miller develop his thesis which became a book.

Bibliography

*"The Negro Emigration Movement, 1849-1854: A Phase of Negro Nationalism ," Phylon 20 (Winter 1959): 134. 38. *"Expressions of Negro Militancy in the North, 1840-1860", The Journal of Negro History 45, no. 1 (January 1960): 11-20 *"Dr. Benjamin Jesse Covington, 1961 *"Negro Nationalism; A Factor in Emigration Projects, 1848—1861," Journal of Negro History 47 (June 1962); pages 42–53. *"The National Negro Convention", 1848 *Some Reform Interests of the Negro During the 1850s as Reflected in State Conventions, Phlyon v. 21/ 2 1960 *"The American Moral Reform Society, 1836-1841", The Journal of Negro Education *''Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Negro Conventions, 1830-1864'', 1969

References

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