Duke University establishes fellowship to honor 1st Black faculty member, Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook.(EDUCATION)(Brief article)

From: Jet | Date: November 6, 2006 | Copyright information

A one-year postdoctoral fellowship has been established at Duke University for outstanding young social scientists studying race, ethnicity and gender.

Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, a distinguished political scientist, educator and human rights activist, was Duke's first Black and tenured faculty member and the first Black to hold a regular faculty appointment at any predominantly White college or university in the South.

He served as a member of the Duke Board of Trustees from 1981-1993. In 1993 he was named a Trustee ...

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