In Memoriam

In Memoriam: George R. Greene, 1930-2013

Early in his legal career, Greene represented students from Shaw University and Saint Augustine's College who were arrested in 1960 for their participation in Raleigh's lunchcounter sit-ins.

In Memoriam: Chinua Achebe, 1930-2013

Since 2009, the noted Nigerian author and educator, has served as the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies at Brown University.

In Memoriam: Wilbert Frazier Jordan Jr., 1950-2013

An environmental attorney, he was the first African American to receive an athletic scholarship at the University of Southern Mississippi.

In Memoriam: Jane Cooke Wright, 1919-2013

When she was named professor of surgery and chair of the cancer chemotherapy department at New York Medical College in 1967, she was the highest-ranked African American woman at any predominantly white U.S. medical school.

In Memoriam: David Lloyd Mathews, 1949-2013

He was president of the Auburn Hills campus of Oakland Community College in Michigan and had served in that post for less than two months before his death.

In Memoriam: Randolph Wilson Bromery, 1926-2013

Dr. Bromery was a former professor of geology and chancellor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He also served as president of Westfield State College, Roxbury Community College, and Springfield College.

In Memoriam: Verla Marie Williams Vaughn, 1948-2013

Dr. Vaughan joined the nursing faculty at Tennessee State University in 1977. In addition to her role on the faculty for 36 years, Dr. Vaughan served as chair of the Christine Sharpe Lectureship, which provided nursing students access to some of the nation's top leaders in nursing.

In Memoriam: Donald Toussaint L’Ouverture Byrd II, 1932-2003

Throughout an illustrious career as a jazz recording artist and performer, he taught at North Carolina Central University, Delaware State University, Rutgers University, Hampton University, New York University, Cornell University, Oberlin College and Howard University.

In Memoriam: Gloria Richardson Smith, 1934-2013

She was the former dean of the nursing schools at the University of Oklahoma and Wayne State University and was the first nurse to be named director of the Michigan Department of Public Health.

In Memoriam: James Alexander Hood, 1942-2013

Hood was one of two Black students who successfully integrated the University of Alabama in 1963. He spent only two months on a hostile campus before transferring to Wayne State University. Many years later, he returned to the University of Alabama to earn a doctoral degree.

In Memoriam: Brooklyn T. McMillon, 1915-2013

Over a career of 65 years of service to North Carolina Central University, he was registrar, professor, chair of the health education department, and volunteer university archivist.

In Memorian: Jan Rynveld Carew, 1920-2012

Born in what was then British Guyana, he was a prolific writer and was professor emeritus of African American studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

In Memoriam: Arthur J. Bond, 1939-2012

Educated at Purdue University, he was the former dean of engineering and technology at Alabama A&M University. As a graduate student he was an adviser to students who formed what is now the National Society of Black Engineers.

In Memoriam: J. Blaine Hudson, 1949-2013

Dr. Hudson had been on medical leave since August and in December had resigned as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Louisville. He had planned to return to the faculty in 2014.

In Memoriam: Henry Blackwell, 1936-2012

He taught at Boston College for 32 and was the first African American to ever serve as a faculty member in the college's English Department.

In Memoriam: Gloria Davy, 1931-2012

She was the first African American to perform as Aida at the Metropolitan Opera and served on the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington from 1984 to 1997.

In Memoriam: Vernice Doris Ferguson, 1928-2012

After a long and distinguished career in government service, she was named a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and held the Fagin Family Chair in Diversity.

In Memoriam: Mozella Smith Peterson Galloway, 1951-2012

She was the co-founder and president of the National Black Herstory Task Force, a nonprofit cultural and educational organization dedicated to celebrate and chronicle the lives of women of African descent.

In Memoriam: Cedric Sydney Rodney, 1924-2012

Until his recent retirement, he was the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religion and Ethics at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina.

In Memoriam: Christopher C. Mercer, 1924-2012

He was one of the six Black students who racially integrated the School of Law at the University of Arkansas. He was an adviser to the Little Rock Nine, the students who racially integrated Central High School in 1957.
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