Charles Harris Wesley (December 2, 1891 – August 16, 1987) was an American historian, educator, minister, and author.

He attended local schools as a boy, and went on to graduate in 1911 from Fisk University, a historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee.

He won a Guggenheim Fellowship that enabled him to travel in 1931 to London, England, where on March 31 he was present with Harold Moody at the founding of the League of Coloured Peoples that was inspired in part by the NAACP, of which Wesley was a member.

He served as its president until 1965, when he returned to Washington, D.C.[6] That year, Wesley became the Director of Research and Publications for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

Wesley was also an archon of Sigma Pi Phi (the Boule), the first of all Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLO).