Henry Allen Bullock

Henry Allen Bullock (May 2, 1906 Tarboro, North Carolina-February 8, 1973 Houston) was an American historian and sociologist.

Life

He graduated from Virginia Union University, in 1928, and from the University of Michigan with an M.A. in 1929 and with a Ph.D. in 1942. He was an Earhardt Foundation fellow at the University of Michigan.

He taught at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1929-30, at Prairie View A&M, from 1930 to 1949, at Dillard University from 1949–50, at Texas Southern University from 1950 to 1969, and at University of Texas at Austin from 1969 to 1971. He retired in 1971 to his home in Houston.

Awards

• 1968 Bancroft Prize

Works

• "Urban Homicide in Theory and Fact", The Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 45, No. 5 (Jan.-Feb., 1955), pp. 565-575
• A History of Negro Education in the South, Harvard University Press, 1967 (reprint Praeger, 1970, LCCN 76101483)