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. Hancock, a prominent leader against all forms of segregation, stood as a leading spokesman for equality in the generation before the civil rights movement. As an activist, he reached broad audiences on the subjects of school-desegregation, voter-registration, and antipoverty through his ministry, in countless speeches, and in a Read more about Dr. Gordon Blaine Hancock[…]
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 Born in Liberia, the grandson of enslaved Americans who had purchased their freedom and emigrated to Africa, Dr. Fuller became known for his seminal work on Alzheimer’s disease and the biological causes of disorders such as schizophrenia and manic depressive psychosis (bipolar disorder). Fuller’s lasting importance to the field Read more about Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller[…]
By Brother David L. Carl 1-93-G Immigrating from humble origins, the Barbadian scholar rose to prominence as the second coming of George Washington Carver by revolutionizing the paper making process. He began life in America working on a steamship in 1917 to fund his education. Even after graduating from Tufts College, and earning his master’s Read more about Dr. Cyril Fitzgerald Atkins[…]
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.[…]
