About Charles H. Wesley
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, taught for decades at Howard University, and served as president of Wilberforce University, and founding president of Central State University, both in Ohio. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship that enabled him to travel in 1931 to. Continuing with his graduate work, in 1925, Wesley became the third African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University. Wesley became an ordained minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME).
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