NEW YORK — Samuel DuBois Cook, a lifelong educator who was widely saluted as the first tenure-track black professor appointed by a predominantly white university in the South since Reconstruction, ...
To understand how large Samuel DuBois Cook loomed in higher education, you have to start from the beginning. Born in nearby Griffin, Cook arrived in Atlanta in 1944. Only 15, he was too young to go to ...
When Samuel DuBois Cook was trying to convince his future father-in-law that he was worthy of his daughter, he would often show up at their home with a fresh melon. It worked. That was part of Cook’s ...
Samuel DuBois Cook, a lifelong educator who was widely saluted as the first tenure-track black professor appointed by a predominantly white university in the South since Reconstruction, died on May 29 ...
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