Bullock

BULLOCK, HENRY ALLEN (19061973). Henry Allen Bullock, first black professor appointed to the faculty of arts and sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, was born on May 2, 1906, in Tarboro, North Carolina, the son of Jessie and Aurelia Bullock. He attended local schools and graduated from Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia, in 1928, with a B.A. in social sciences and Latin classics; he received from the University of Michigan an M.A. in sociology and comparative psychology in 1929 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1942. He was an Earhardt Foundation fellow at the University of Michigan and was twice a general-education fellow.