Physician, Scholar, Teacher, Civil Rights Activist
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About Dr. Cobb:

• Dr. Cobb was the only black physical anthropologist with a Ph.D. before the Korean War
• He dedicated his life to turning prejudice into pluralism
• He attended Howard University Medical School, where he earned a Masters Degree in 1929 and would later spend much of his professional career.
• He returned to Howard University in 1932 and began working on a laboratory of his own to conduct skeletal research.
• He launched several crusades that attached segregation and discrimination in medical education, professional training, and healthcare
• Dr. Cobb also made significant contributions to the issue of race in athletics, where he claimed race was insignificant to athletics and he also profiled the biology and demography of the African American race during the 1930’s
• From 1944-1977 Cobb served as the driving force behind the journal of the National Medical Association
• His collection of over 600 skeletons is considered one of the premiere collections of its kind
• Dr. Cobb served as president of the National Medical Association from 1964-65
• Dr. Cobb was President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people (N.A.A.C.P) from 1976-1982