Channing Heggie Tobias (February 1, 1882 in Augusta, Georgia – November 5, 1961 in Manhattan, NY) was a civil rights activist and 1948 Spingarn Medalist.

While chairman of the committee on race relations for the 1937 YMCA World Conference in India he met Mahatma Gandhi.

[3] In 1945, Tobias participated in the development of the New York State Fair Employment Law, and the following year he became director of the Phelps-Stokes Fund.

[1] When he became NAACP chairman in 1953, Tobias launched the Fight for Freedom Fund to eliminate state-imposed racial segregation by the time of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation.

[1] He resigned from the New York State Commission Against Discrimination in protest at the slowness of passing anti-discrimination legislation.