:Enos Luther Brookes
{{short description|African American chemist, activist}}
Enos Luther Brookes (1891–1944) was a chemist, academic, and activist for civil rights in the United States.{{cite book | title=Who's who in Colored America | publisher=Who's Who in Colored America Corporation | issue=v. 6 | year=1942 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rQRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA75 | access-date=February 2, 2019 | page=75}} He was born in Jamaica, then a British colony.
Early life and education
Born in Jamaica, his father was school teacher James M. Brookes and his mother Martha Brookes.{{cite web | title=E Luther Brookes in the 1940 Census | website=Ancestry | url=https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Georgia/E-Luther-Brookes_1tq2h9 | access-date=February 2, 2019}} 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.{{cite web| last=Brown| first=Mitchell C.| title=E. Luther Brookes: Chemist| website=The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences| url=https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/brookes.html| access-date=February 2, 2019| archive-date=September 19, 2006| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060919193918/https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/brookes.html| url-status=dead}}
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. He was a founder of Alpha Delta Alpha Scientific Society at Clark University.{{cite book | last=Cohen | first=Rodney | title=The black colleges of Atlanta | publisher=Arcadia Publishing | publication-place=Charleston, South Carolina | year=2000 | isbn=1-4396-1069-X | oclc=860833902 }} 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.{{cite book | last=Brawley | first=J.P. | title=The Clark College Legacy: An Interpretive History of Relevant Education, 1869-1975 | publisher=Clark College | year=1977 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BUG7AAAAIAAJ | access-date=February 2, 2019 | page=94}} He is one of the Black Faces of Science on the North Carolina A & T mural.{{cite web | title=The Faces of Science | website=North Carolina A&T State University | url=https://www.ncat.edu/research/faces-of-science.html | access-date=February 2, 2019}}
Civic work
Brookes served as the President of the Atlanta branch of the NAACP.{{cite book | title=The Crisis | date=July 1939 | publisher=The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OVsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA216 | access-date=February 2, 2019 | page=216}} 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.{{cite journal |title=Alpha Phi Chapter, Clark University |journal=The SPHINX |date=February 1937 |volume=23 |issue=1 |page=27 |access-date=2 February 2019|url=https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/193702301/31}}{{cite web | title=E. Luther Brookes | website=Jamaica's history - always something new to find out! | date=September 4, 1985 | url=http://jamaica-history.weebly.com/e-luther-brookes.html | access-date=February 2, 2019}} He served on the board of directors of the Atlanta Tuberculosis Association.
Personal life
In 1928, he married English professor Stella Lucille Brewer. He died of a heart attack in 1944.{{cite news |title=Clark Prof. Dies of Heart Attack |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2211&dat=19440415&id=lx0mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0v0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3305,1000412 |access-date=2 February 2019 |work=The Afro American |date=Apr 15, 1944}}
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Category:20th-century African-American academics
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