[1] In 1926 Ivy began teaching English and French at the all-black Union High School in Hampton, Virginia.
He later summarised his internationalist creed: "I believe American Negroes should recognise similarities between their problems and those of blacks in other parts of the world".
[3] Together with Horace Mann Bond, Mercer Cook, John A. Davis and William T. Fontaine, Ivy was amongst the African American delegates to the First Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris in 1956.
[4] The group, together with Thurgood Marshall and Duke Ellington, formed the American Society of African Culture in December 1956.
He died of cancer on April 11, 1974 at his home on La Salle Street, Morningside Heights, New York City.