Will W. Alexander

He served as Executive Secretary Army Y.M.C.A. Southeastern Military Department from 1917 to 1919.^[1]

He served as the Executive Director of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation from 1919 to 1930.^[1]

Alexander originally had no desire to become a college president; he was deeply committed to the CIC. However, he was persuaded to become acting president "during the preliminary stages of its development", and served in 1935–36.^[2] In 1926 he was the first ever winner of the prestigious Gold medal for distinguished achievements in race relations of the Harmon Foundation awards.^[3]

• Dykeman, Wilma (1976). Seeds Of Southern Change: The Life Of Will Alexander. W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. ISBN 0-393-00813-4 ISBN 978-0393008135
• Who Was Who in American History - the Military. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1975. ISBN 0837932017.