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Enos Luther Brookes

Thuy Duong

5th period

02/20/2020

Background Information

- Brookes was born in Jamaica

- He was born in 1891

- As the son of school teacher James M. Brookes and Martha Brookes .

- He came to America in 1914 ( when he was 23 year old )

- In 1928, he married historian Dr. Stella Lucille Brewer

- He died of a heart attack in 1944

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Jamaica ( outside the U.S. )

Enos Luther Brookes (1891-1944)

Education

- Elementary-Middle-High school are not found

- though his schoolmaster father presumably made sure that he received a good one.

-One report says he worked as a young man as a bookkeeper at Retrieve estate in Westmoreland, while another suggests that he spent some time in Central America, before going to study at the Tuskegee Institute in 1914-1915.

-He attended Tuskeegee Institute and his bachelor's degree from Lincoln University in 1923 where he was valedictorian. He received his masters in chemistry from Columbia University in 1928.

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Lincoln University, Pennsylvania Columbia University

The information found about Brookes' school in Jamaica

Contribution to science

- He was president of the Atlanta NAACP Branch, member of the board of directors, Atlanta Tuberculosis Association; member of the Central Methodist Church and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

-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 is one of the Black Faces of Science on the North Carolina A & T mural.

Contribution to science

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Additional Information

- Mr and Mrs Brookes were married in the Crogman Chapel, which is located at Clark University.

- Mrs.Brookes died when she was 90 and Mr. Brookes died when he was 44 because heart attacked.

- Waltham Abbey in St. Ann (a little inland between Rio Bueno and Discovery Bay) was Mr.Brookes hometown.

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