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