Richard Henry Singleton

Atlanta Constitution

article reporting Rev. Singleton's trip to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919

Rev. Richard Henry Singleton (September 11, 1865,

Morris Brown University and president of the local chapter of the NAACP.^[1]

In 1919 he was selected to represent "his church and his race" at the

Paris Peace Conference, one of a group of ten American blacks who would confer with President Woodrow Wilson and his conferees over the future of the German colonies in Africa (roughly present day Cameroon, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Namibia and Togo).^[2]

Singleton spoke at the 1921 opening of

References

^ Inc, The Crisis Publishing Company (1924-03-01). The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
^ "Atlanta Negro goes to Peace Conference", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 9, 1919
^ "Big Bethel's Loss", Atlanta Constitution, November 21, 1923