Enos Luther Brookes

Enos Luther Brookes (1891-1944) was an American chemist, academic and a early civil rights movement activist.[1]

Personal life

He was born in Jamaica, as the son of James M. Brookes and Martha Brookes.[2] He came to America in 1914.[1] In 1928, he married Stella Lucille Brewer.[3] He died of a heart attack.[4]

Education

He attended Tuskeegee Institute and his Bachelors degree from Lincoln University.[1] He had the highest rank at Tuskeegee and the Validictorian at Lincoln University.[5] He received his masters at Columbia University.[6]

Academic work

He initially served as a faculty member at Columbia University.[5] He served as a faculty member at Clark College [7] He was the head of the Department of Science at Clark University.[8] He served as a chemistry professor at Alabama State University.[5] He also served as a professor at Florida A & M.[5] He was a founder of Alpha Delta Alpha Scientific Society at Clark University.[9] Professor Brookes in collaboration with Mr. Henry Lewis Van Dyke of Alabama State College wrote a syllabus for "Survey of the Physical Sciences" via a grant from the General Education Board of New York City.[10]

Civic work

He served as the head of the Atlanta branch of the NAACP.[11] He was a speaker at a number of NAACP regional conferences.[12] He was key in setting up a task force in dealing with internal conflicts that plagued the NAACP.[13] He was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.[8] He founded the chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha at Clark University.[14]

Legacy

The chemistry department at Clark University is named after him.[15] He is on the Black faces of science on the North Carolina A & T mural.[16]

Sources

Black Biography: 1790-1950 : A Cumulative Index.

Randall K. Burkett, Nancy Hall Burkett, and Henry Louis Gates,Jr., editors. (Alexandria, VA : Chadwyck-Healey), 1990. p. 147. Blacks in Science and Education.

Vivian O. Sammons. (Washington, D.C.: Hemisphere Publishers), 1989. p. 37.

Who's Who in Colored America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of Negro Descent in America. (New York, NY: Who's Who in Colored America Corp.)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "E. Luther Brookes".
  2. ↑ "E. Luther Brookes: Chemist".
  3. ↑ "Who's who in Colored America". Who's Who in Colored America Corporation. 1 January 1942 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "The Afro American - Google News Archive Search".
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Who's who in Colored America". Who's Who in Colored America Corporation. 1 January 1942 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=cccatalogs
  7. ↑ Cohen, Rodney T. (18 September 2012). "The Black Colleges of Atlanta". Arcadia Publishing – via Google Books.
  8. 1 2 "The SPHINX - Spring February 1937 - Volume 23 - Number 1 193702301".
  9. ↑ Webster, Raymond B. (1 January 1999). "African American Firsts in Science and Technology". Gale Group – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ Brawley, James P. (1 January 1977). "The Clark College Legacy: An Interpretive History of Relevant Education, 1869-1975". Clark College – via Google Books.
  11. ↑ Inc, The Crisis Publishing Company (1 July 1939). "The Crisis". The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. – via Google Books.
  12. ↑ Inc, The Crisis Publishing Company (1 May 1939). "The Crisis". The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=454aAQAAIAAJ&q=e+luther+brooks+naacp&dq=e+luther+brooks+naacp&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc9LfSs47PAhXGVT4KHQ-4DhQ4ChDoAQggMAE
  14. ↑ "THE SPHINX - Spring 1986 - Volume 69 - Number 1 198606901".
  15. ↑ Cohen, Rodney T. (18 September 2012). "The Black Colleges of Atlanta". Arcadia Publishing – via Google Books.
  16. ↑ "The Faces of Science - North Carolina A&T State University".
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