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History >USA > Civil rights > Activists
Samuel D. Cook 1928-2017
Dr. Cook in 1966 at Duke, where he taught political science until 1974.
Photograph: Duke University Archives
Samuel D. Cook, Educator Who Pierced Campus Color Barriers, Dies at 88 By SAM ROBERTS NYT JUNE 8, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/
Samuel D. Cook 1928-2017
lifelong educator who was widely saluted as the first tenure-track black professor appointed by a predominantly white university in the South since Reconstruction
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In 1973, he also became the first black president of the Southern Political Science Association.
President Jimmy Carter later named him to the National Council on the Humanities.
A political scientist by training, Dr. Cook was a staunch defender of all-black colleges and a crusader for interracial harmony, especially between blacks and Jews.
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The summer after high school, Samuel Cook and his friend Martin Luther King Jr. were sent by their fathers, both preachers, to work in Connecticut’s tobacco fields to earn money for college.
That fall, as precocious 15-year-old freshmen, they entered Morehouse under an early-admissions program aimed at filling classrooms emptied by students drafted for World War II.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/
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