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.