Henry Allen Bullock (May 2, 1906 - February 8, 1973) was an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and sociologist and the first Black professor to be appointed to the faculty of arts and sciences at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

Education

He graduated from

Virginia Union University Virginia Union University is a private historically black Baptist university in Richmond, Virginia. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. History The American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) founded the school as Rich ...

with a B.A in

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s and Latin classics in 1928, from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

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

Career

He taught at

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (also known as North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina A&T, N.C. A&T, or simply A&T) is a public, historically black land-grant research university in Greensboro, North Caro ...

in 1929-30, at Prairie View A&M, from 1930 to 1949, at

Dillard University Dillard University is a private, historically black university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 1930 and incorporating earlier institutions founded as early as 1869 after the American Civil War, it is affiliated with the United Church of C ...

from 1949–50, at

Texas Southern University Texas Southern University (Texas Southern or TSU) is a public historically black university in Houston, Texas. The university is one of the largest and most comprehensive historically black college or universities in the USA with nearly 10,00 ...

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

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, Texas.

Awards

In 1968, Bullock won the

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...

from

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for his work, '' A History of Negro Education in the South''.

Works

''Urban Homicide in Theory and Fact''
* '' A History of Negro Education in the South'' *
A Comparison of the Academic Achievements of White and Negro High School Graduates
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''Significance of the Racial Factor in the Length of Prison Sentences''''Racial Attitudes and the Employment of Negroes''''The Black College and the New Black Awareness''''The Prediction of Dropout Behavior Among Urban Negro Boys''

References

Virginia Union University alumni University of Michigan alumni 1906 births 1973 deaths American sociologists Historians of the Southern United States History of the Thirteen Colonies 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Bancroft Prize winners American male non-fiction writers {{sociologist-stub