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Correspondence, 1934-1961. (Box 1, Folder 10)

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Channing Heggie Tobias was born 1 February 1882 in Augusta, Georgia. He was educated in the public schools of Augusta, and went on to earn a B.A. from Paine College in 1902, a B.D. from Drew Theological Seminary in 1905, and did special work at the University of Pennsylvania. Gammon Theological Seminary (Atlanta, Geo.) conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1924. Most of Tobias's career was devoted to the YMCA. He joined that organization in 1911, after a six year stint as professor of bible literature at his alma mater, Paine College, serving for twelve years as student secretary of the International Committee of the YMCA. He was appointed as senior secretary of the YMCA's Colored Work Department in September 1923, a position he held until 1946, when the YMCA abolished separate programs for black men. During these twenty three years, he also held a number of other YMCA positions relating to race relations, including member of the Executive Committee of the National Interracial Conference and associate director of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. He was a delegate and a speaker at the 1926 World Conference in Finland, and traveled to YMCAs throughout the world during his career. After leaving the YMCA in 1946, he became the first black director of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, a foundation devoted to the improvement of educational opportunities for African Americans. He retired in 1953. In addition to his extensive work through the YMCA movement, Tobias held numerous civic and...
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