Organization Niagara Movement

Wilberforce University

University of Pennsylvania

Atlanta University

American Negro Academy (president)

Moon Illustrated Weekly (founder and editor)

The Horizon: A Journal of the Color Line (founder and editor)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (co-founder)

Crisis (co-founder editor)

The Brownies' Book (founder and editor)

National Guardian

Peace Information Center (chairman)

American Labor Party (candidate for U.S. Senate)

Pan-African Congress (organizer)

Council of African Affairs (vice chairman)

Encyclopedia of the Negro (editor-in-chief)

Encyclopaedia Africana (director)

Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement (cofounder)