James W. Ivy

James W. Ivy (1901 – 1974) was an African American educator and journalist. He edited the NAACP's magazine The Crisis from 1950 until retirement in 1966.

Life Ivy was born in Danville, Virginia on May 16, 1901, the son of William and Nannie Ivy. He was educated at public schools in Danville before gaining a B.Sc. from Virginia Union University in 1925. He later did graduate study at New York University. 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. The group, together with Thurgood Marshall and Duke Ellington, formed the American Society of African Culture in December 1956.

Ivy retired in May 1966. He died of cancer on April 11, 1974 at his home on La Salle Street, Morningside Heights, New York City.

Writing 'Fifty years of progress in literature'. Pittsburgh Courier, 1950. 'The Wisdom of the Haitian Peasant: or some Haitian proverbs considered', Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 4, No. 9 (1951), pp. 197, 209-10. Present-day Brazilian Race Relations : a brief bibliography with an introduction. New York, 1958.