Information below from the wonderful book "As Long As We Both Shall Live: Long-Married Couples in America" by Robert Fass.
Born in Harlem, the son of a Navy machinist, Paul noted that his ancestors were manumitted from slavery in 1826 in Washington, D.C. His wife Rose's family went back 4-5 generations in West Virginia, with no record of ever having lived in slavery.
An eminent Washingtonian, Paul Philips Cooke held two masters' degrees, plus an ED.D. and an honorary LL.D. degree. His long career as an educator was capped by his serving (from 1966-1974) as President of the District of Columbia Teachers College, which was formed in 1955 by the merger of Miners Teachers College (a black institution) with Wilson Teachers College (a white institution). The successor school —- the University of the District of Columbia -— was formed in 1977 by the union of D.C. Teachers College, Federal City College, and Washington Technical Institute. Rose was also a full-time teacher, until 1949, when she quit to raise their four children.
Born in Harlem, the son of a Navy machinist, Paul noted that his ancestors were manumitted from slavery in 1826 in Washington, D.C. His wife Rose's family went back 4-5 generations in West Virginia, with no record of ever having lived in slavery.
An eminent Washingtonian, Paul Philips Cooke held two masters' degrees, plus an ED.D. and an honorary LL.D. degree. His long career as an educator was capped by his serving (from 1966-1974) as President of the District of Columbia Teachers College, which was formed in 1955 by the merger of Miners Teachers College (a black institution) with Wilson Teachers College (a white institution). The successor school —- the University of the District of Columbia -— was formed in 1977 by the union of D.C. Teachers College, Federal City College, and Washington Technical Institute. Rose was also a full-time teacher, until 1949, when she quit to raise their four children.
Information below from the wonderful book "As Long As We Both Shall Live: Long-Married Couples in America" by Robert Fass.
Born in Harlem, the son of a Navy machinist, Paul noted that his ancestors were manumitted from slavery in 1826 in Washington, D.C. His wife Rose's family went back 4-5 generations in West Virginia, with no record of ever having lived in slavery.
An eminent Washingtonian, Paul Philips Cooke held two masters' degrees, plus an ED.D. and an honorary LL.D. degree. His long career as an educator was capped by his serving (from 1966-1974) as President of the District of Columbia Teachers College, which was formed in 1955 by the merger of Miners Teachers College (a black institution) with Wilson Teachers College (a white institution). The successor school —- the University of the District of Columbia -— was formed in 1977 by the union of D.C. Teachers College, Federal City College, and Washington Technical Institute. Rose was also a full-time teacher, until 1949, when she quit to raise their four children.
Born in Harlem, the son of a Navy machinist, Paul noted that his ancestors were manumitted from slavery in 1826 in Washington, D.C. His wife Rose's family went back 4-5 generations in West Virginia, with no record of ever having lived in slavery.
An eminent Washingtonian, Paul Philips Cooke held two masters' degrees, plus an ED.D. and an honorary LL.D. degree. His long career as an educator was capped by his serving (from 1966-1974) as President of the District of Columbia Teachers College, which was formed in 1955 by the merger of Miners Teachers College (a black institution) with Wilson Teachers College (a white institution). The successor school —- the University of the District of Columbia -— was formed in 1977 by the union of D.C. Teachers College, Federal City College, and Washington Technical Institute. Rose was also a full-time teacher, until 1949, when she quit to raise their four children.
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