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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 285 

Honoring the life and achievements of Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 5, 2017 

Ms. WARREN (for herself, Mr. BURR, Mr. CASSIDY, and Mr. TILLIS) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 

the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the life and achievements of Dr. Samuel DuBois 

Cook. 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook was born on November 

21, 1928, in Griffin, Georgia; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook earned a Bachelor of Arts 

degree in history from Morehouse College in Atlanta, 

Georgia; 

Whereas, as a student, Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook was a 

friend and classmate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and 

a leader at Morehouse College, where he served as student body president and founded the campus chapter of 

the National Association for the advancement of Colored 

People; 


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Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook earned a Master of Arts 

in Political Science and a Doctor of Philosophy from 

Ohio State University; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook is a veteran who served 

in the United States Army during the Korean War; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook taught at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Atlanta University, 

the University of Illinois, and the University of California, Los Angeles, before becoming a faculty member at 

Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook spent his life working for 

social justice and equality; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook distinguished himself as 

an educator, scholar, thinker, activist, and public servant; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook broke racial barriers as 

the first African-American to hold either a regular or 

tenured faculty appointment at a predominantly White 

southern college or university, when he received an appointment at Duke University; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook also broke racial barriers 

in his field by serving as the first African-American president of the Southern Political Science Association; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook endeavored to advance 

interracial harmony; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook left an indelible imprint 

on Dillard University, a historically Black university in 

New Orleans, Louisiana, as its president for more than 

2 decades; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook was appointed to the National Council on the Humanities by President Jimmy 


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Carter and appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by President Bill Clinton; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook served as vice president 

of the American Political Science Association, president 

of the Association for the Study of African American Life 

and History, and chair of the Presidents of the United 

Negro College Fund; 

Whereas Duke University established the Samuel DuBois 

Cook Society, the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social 

Equity, the Samuel DuBois Cook professorship, and the 

Samuel DuBois Cook Postdoctoral Fellowship; 

Whereas Ohio State University established the Samuel 

DuBois Cook Summer Academy and the Samuel DuBois 

Cook graduate fellowship, to honor the work and achievements of Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook; 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook died on May 29, 2017; 

and 

Whereas Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook is considered to be a trailblazer who lived a life of integrity: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate honors the life and achieve2 ments of Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook. 

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