By Brother David L. Carl 1-93-G A Phi Beta Kappa scholar at Amherst College, he became the first Black professor to join their faculty. As Harvard’s first Black Ph.D. in chemistry, he returned to Washington to head the chemistry department at Howard. He mentored many of the Black chemistry students who would later earn doctorates. Read more about Dr. Robert Percy Barnes[…]
By Brother David L. Carl 1-93-G Dr. Cobb, the first Black Ph.D. in anthropology, applied his research to challenge the false theories of racial inferiority espoused by leading physicians, naturalists and anthropologists, who promoted myths of racial hierarchies and the biological inferiority of the darker races. He wielded science as a formidable tool in the Read more about Dr. William Montague Cobb[…]
By Brother David L. Carl 1-93-G The First Black Ph.D. in Anatomy, Dr. McKinney established the department at Howard University, serving as chair and vice dean of the College of Medicine. A graduate of Bates College, Sigma Xi honor society member, and Fulbright fellow, for more than 50 years McKinney taught and lectured around the Read more about Dr. Roscoe Lewis Mckinney[…]
By Brother David L. Carl 1-93-G A pioneer in law, Andrews established himself as one of the first successful Black attorneys to practice in the early twentieth century. Born in South Carolina in 1891, and initiated into Alpha Chapter, he graduated from Howard University in 1915. He then matriculated to Harvard Law School where Read more about Robert McCants Andrews, Esq.[…]
By Brother David L. Carl 1-93-G A vanguard academically and professionally, a veteran of World War I, and a preeminent attorney, Johnson practiced law in Allegheny County for 49 years. Born in 1891 in Virginia, and raised in Pennsylvania, he attend Howard University. There, he pledged allegiance to Omega in 1913, during the Fraternity’s infancy. Read more about Oliver Livingstone Johnson, Esq.[…]
