Now retired, Duke honors his legacy annually with an awards banquet. He later became the president of Dillard University, a historically black university in New Orleans. A graduate of Morehouse College, he was classmates with Martin Luther King, Jr. He is also the first African American to hold a regular faculty appointment at any predominantly white college or university in the South. Coleman joined the Duke Law faculty in 1991 and teaches criminal law, legal ethics and capital punishment.Ĭook is Duke’s first black tenured professor, joining the faculty in 1966, three years after the university’s student body desegregated. The most well-known case is that of Darryl Hunt who was imprisoned for 20 years before DNA testing exonerated him. The co-director of Duke’s Wrongful Convictions Clinic, Coleman is also an adviser to the Innocence Project, a program run by law students that helps exonerate innocent people in prison. He is currently chairman and CEO of the Hip-Hop Action Summit. After serving time in prison, his conviction was overturned on appeal, and he completed a Master of Divinity at Duke in 1980 and later became executive director of the NAACP. Martin Luther King Jr., Chavis rose to international prominence after being convicted of arson as the leader of the Wilmington Ten. He now serves as a state senator and is recognized throughout the state and the country as an outstanding political leader.Ī civil rights leader who was groomed by the Rev. Blue was re-elected to the North Carolina State House of Representatives 11 times and served as the state’s first African-American Speaker of the House from 1991 to 1994. His portrait hangs in the foyer of the Allen Building.Ī 1973 graduate of Duke Law School, Blue is the first black chair of university’s Board of Trustees. Abele worked for the Philadelphia firm of Horace Trumbauer and had not even visited the campus he designed because of his revulsion of segregation. The chief designer and architect of Duke’s grand styled campus, Abele’s identity was not widely known until 1986.
Below is a sample of some of the people who have made lasting impact in their respective fields. African Americans at Duke have made intellectual and cultural contributions to life beyond Duke’s walls.
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