[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 285 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 285

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


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                   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

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                               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;
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 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
    Resolved, That the Senate honors the life and achievements of Dr. 
Samuel DuBois Cook.
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