Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Samuel DuBois Cook
Samuel DuBois Cook
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| Other authors / contributors: | Cook, Samuel DuBois, 1928-2017, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
Jackson, Adrian, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Adrian Jackson.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 June 20.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 December 8.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | University president and professor Samuel DuBois Cook was born on November 21, 1928, in Griffin, Georgia. Cook graduated from Griffin Vocational High School in 1944. He earned his A.B. degree in history from Morehouse College; and, his M.A. degree in political science and his Ph.D. degree from Ohio State University. Cook began his career in 1955 as a political science instructor at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Later, he taught at Southern University, Atlanta University and UCLA. In 1966, he became the first African-American professor at Duke University in North Carolina. He won the university's first student selected award for most outstanding professor. In 1974, Cook was named president of Dillard University, where he served for twenty-two years. He retired in 1997. He received many honors and awards. In 2015, Duke dedicated the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity in his honor. Cook passed away on May 29, 2017 at age 88.
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