Dr. Samuel Dubois Cook

Samuel DuBois Cook, a Morehouse College graduate, was the first African American professor at Duke University and later president of Dillard University. A political scientist, he was a classmate and friend of Martin Luther King Jr.

• First African American faculty member at Duke University.
• President of Dillard University, 1974–1997.
• Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 1998.