Bell Jr. (1907-June 4, 2000), was an African American business owner, a funeral director, a community leader, and a civil rights activist.
[2] He graduated from Classical High School and took classes in Business Administration at Bryant College.
Bell was one of the founders of the Rhode Island Urban League in 1939, and with the League advocated for Black workers at Kaiser Shipyard at Field's point, opposed segregation in Providence housing projects the Roger Williams Housing Project and Codding Court in the 1950s.
Bell served as a member of the Urban League's Board, and advisor to its Youth Council,[3] and its president from 1947-1950.
Bell was one of the founders of the Opportunities Industrialization Center office in the south side of Providence, Rhode Island in 1967.