University of Nebraska Honors Black Artist and Scholar

The University of Nebraska has named an endowed professorship in honor of Aaron Douglas. In 1922 Douglas was the first African American to earn an art degree at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Douglas went on to establish the art department at Fisk University. He served as the art department chair at Fisk for more than 30 years.

Full professors from any department at any campus of the University of Nebraska are eligible for the professorship.

Douglas died in 1979.

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