RARE \"Brown University\" Samuel M. Nabrit Hand Signed 3X5 Card For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "Brown University" Samuel M. Nabrit Hand Signed 3X5 Card. 

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Samuel

M. Nabrit, (February 21, 1905 –

December 30, 2003) became the first African American to be awarded a doctoral

degree from Brown University, the first Morehouse College graduate to

earn a Ph.D. and the first African American appointed to the U.S. Atomic Energy

Commission (now the Nuclear Regulatory

Commission). He is also the first African American to serve on

the Brown University Board of Trustees.  Dr.

Nabrit graduated from Morehouse College in 1925, obtained his master's degree

from Brown University in 1928 and received his doctorate in biology from Brown University in 1932. The next four African-American

Ph.D. candidates at Brown University were students whom Nabrit taught at

Morehouse. Born on February 21, 1905, in Macon, Georgia, Samuel Milton Nabrit

was the son of James M. Nabrit, Sr., a Baptist minister and teacher, and

Augusta G. West. One of eight children, all of whom received a college

education, Nabrit was elected valedictorian of his high school class in 1921. His

brother James Nabrit, Jr., also a

graduate of Morehouse College, became the second African-American president

of Howard University and

Deputy United States Ambassador to the United Nations. He was married to the late Constance Croker. An

accomplished marine biologist, Dr.

Nabrit studied the regeneration of the tail fins of injured fish at the Marine

Biological Laboratory where he became the second African-American scientist to

obtain membership into the Marine Biological Laboratory Corporation. Dr. Nabrit

began his teaching career at Morehouse College in 1925 where was a professor of

zoology and named Chair of the biology department in 1932. He later became

chairman of the biology department at Atlanta University in

1932, and from 1957 to 1955 was dean of the graduate school of arts and

sciences at Atlanta University. In 1950, Dr. Nabrit was a research fellow

at the University

of Brussels in Belgium. The scientific papers Nabrit published, during this

period, remained influential in the field for decades. In 1955, he was named

the second president of Texas Southern University where

he served as president until 1966. Between 1956 and 1962, Nabrit served on

[President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s National Science Board He

was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to be the United States Ambassador to Niger. In 1966,

President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed

Dr. Nabrit to the United

States Atomic Energy Commission. One year later, Dr. Nabrit founded

the Southern Fellowship Fund in an effort to assist African-American students

pursuing doctoral degrees. He directed the program (later known as the National

Fellowship Fund of the Council of Southern Universities) well into his later

years of life. In 1945, he was a founding member of the National Academy of

Science’s Institute of Medicine, and

served as president of the National Institute of Science In 1967, Nabrit was elected

to the Board of Trustees at

Brown University.[4] Along with the Nabrit Fellowship established at

Brown University in 1985, the Nabrit Black Graduate Student Association at

Brown University is named in his honor. In 1999, the university honored Nabrit

with the hanging of a portrait alongside Brown’s most distinguished faculty.