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Dr.
Henry Allen Bullock
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Tarboro, North Carolina
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| Died |
Houston, Texas
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| Alma mater | Virginia Union University, University of Michigan |
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| Institutions | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Prairie View A&M, Dillard University, Texas Southern University, University of Texas at Austin |
Henry Allen Bullock (May 2, 1906 - February 8, 1973) was an American historian and sociologist and the first Black professor to be appointed to the faculty of arts and sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
Education
He graduated from Virginia Union University with a B.A in social sciences and Latin classics in 1928, from the University of Michigan with an M.A. in sociology and comparative psychology in 1929 and with a Ph.D. in sociology in 1942. He was an Earhardt Foundation fellow at the University of Michigan.
Career
He taught at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1929-30, at Prairie View A&M, from 1930 to 1949, at Dillard University from 1949–50, at Texas Southern University from 1950 to 1969. He became the first African American to serve on the faculty of arts and sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served from 1969 to 1971.
He retired in 1971 to his home in Houston, Texas.
Awards
In 1968, Bullock won the Bancroft Prize from Columbia University for his work, A History of Negro Education in the South.
Works
- A History of Negro Education in the South
- A Comparison of the Academic Achievements of White and Negro High School Graduates
