In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Lawrence Guyout, 1939-2012

He was a civil rights activist who inspired generations of students to become involved in politics. He was a graduate of Tougaloo College and the law school at Rutgers University.

In Memoriam: Harrison DeWayne Whittington, 1931-2012

A founding member of the board of visitors at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, he also served as a visiting lecturer, Director of Field Experience, and an adviser to the university's Upward Bound program.

In Memoriam: James Russell Dumpson, 1909-2012

He was the former dean of the Graduate School of Social Science at Fordham University and was the oldest living alumnus of Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.

In Memoriam: Andrew Felton Brimmer Jr. 1926-2012

The son of a sharecropper, he was the first African American to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He also taught at Harvard Business School and chaired the board of trustees at Tuskegee University for 28 years.

In Memoriam: Mervyn Malcolm Dymally, 1926-2012

The former congressman and lieutenant governor of California served as the director of the Urban Health Institute at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles.

In Memoriam: Rollin Charles Williams, 1922-2012

In 1957, he was hired as an assistant professor of social work, the first African American faculty member at the University of Connecticut.

In Memoriam: Philip Byron Nixon, 1953-2012

He was assistant vice president of student services at Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama.

In Memoriam: Lindsey Wetherspoon, 1924-2012

He taught for nearly 60 years in the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences at Prairie View A&M University in Texas.

In Memoriam: James L. Hill, 1928-2012

A special assistant to the president of the University of Texas, he was the first African American to serve as a vice president of the university.

In Memoriam: Emerson A. Cooper, 1924-2012

He joined the Oakwood University faculty in 1948 as an instructor of chemistry and taught there until 1992.

In Memoriam: Albert Cornelius Freeman Jr., 1934-2012

He taught in the department of theater at Howard University since 1991 and chaired the department for six years.

In Memoriam: Aaronette M. White, 1961-2012

She was an associate professor of psychology and associate dean of equity and social responsibility in the Division of Social Sciences of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

In Memoriam: Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte, 1933-2012

A longtime member of the faculty at Colgate University, he was the first director of the African American studies program at Yale University.

In Memoriam: Thelma McWilliams Glass, 1916-2012

A longtime professor of geography at Alabama State University, she was the last surviving member of the the Women's Political Council, which organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56.

In Memoriam: Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1949-2012

He was a a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He published his first book on the Haitian revolution while he was an undergraduate student at CUNY.

In Memoriam: William James Raspberry, 1935-2012

From 1995 to 2008, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist served as the Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism at Duke. He commuted from Washington to Durham each week when classes were in session.

In Memoriam: Leontine T.C. Kelly, 1920-2012

An educator and social activist, she was the first Black woman bishop in a mainstream Christian denomination.

In Memoriam: John W. Porter, 1931-2012

In 1979 he was selected as the 17th president of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti and served in that post for a decade.

In Memoriam: Yvonne Bond Miller, 1934-2012

A professor emerita of childhood education at Norfolk State University, she was the first Black woman elected to both houses of the Virginia legislature.

In Memoriam: H. Douglas Covington, 1935-2012

He was president of three HBCUs before becoming the first African American to lead a predominantly white, state-operated university in Virginia.
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