Enos_Luther_Brookes

Enos Luther Brookes

Enos Luther Brookes

African American chemist, activist

Enos Luther Brookes (1891–1944) was a chemist, academic, and activist for civil rights in the United States.[1] He was born in Jamaica, then a British colony.

Enos Luther Brookes in The Crisis, 1939

Early life and education

Born in Jamaica, his father was school teacher James M. Brookes and his mother Martha Brookes.[2] He came to the United States in 1914.

He attended Tuskegee Institute and his bachelor's degree from Lincoln University in 1923 where he was valedictorian. He received his master's degree in chemistry from Columbia University in 1928.[3]

Academic work

Brookes served as a faculty member at Columbia University and was also a faculty member at Clark University. He was the head of the Department of Science at Clark University. He also worked at Alabama State University and at Florida A & M.[3] He was a founder of Alpha Delta Alpha Scientific Society at Clark University.[4] 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.[5] He is one of the Black Faces of Science on the North Carolina A & T mural.[6]

Civic work

Brookes served as the President of the Atlanta branch of the NAACP.[7] He spoke at a number of NAACP regional conferences. He was key in setting up a task force in dealing with internal conflicts that plagued the NAACP. He was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and founded the chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha at Clark University.[8][9] He served on the board of directors of the Atlanta Tuberculosis Association.[7]

Personal life

In 1928, he married English professor Stella Lucille Brewer.[1] He died of a heart attack in 1944.[10]

References

  1. [1]
    Who's who in Colored America. Who's Who in Colored America Corporation. 1942. p. 75. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  2. [2]
    "E Luther Brookes in the 1940 Census". Ancestry. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  3. [3]
    Brown, Mitchell C. "E. Luther Brookes: Chemist". The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences. Archived from the original on September 19, 2006. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  4. [4]
    Cohen, Rodney (2000). The black colleges of Atlanta. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 1-4396-1069-X. OCLC 860833902.
  5. [5]
    Brawley, J.P. (1977). The Clark College Legacy: An Interpretive History of Relevant Education, 1869-1975. Clark College. p. 94. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  6. [6]
    "The Faces of Science". North Carolina A&T State University. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  7. [7]
    The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. July 1939. p. 216. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  8. [8]
    "Alpha Phi Chapter, Clark University". The SPHINX. 23 (1): 27. February 1937. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  9. [9]
    "E. Luther Brookes". Jamaica's history - always something new to find out!. September 4, 1985. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  10. [10]
    "Clark Prof. Dies of Heart Attack". The Afro American. Apr 15, 1944. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
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