Doris Y. Wilkinson

Doris Y. Wilkinson

American sociologist (1936–2024)

📍 Lexington, Kentucky USA

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Doris Yvonne Wilkinson was an American sociologist from Lexington, Kentucky, who was an instigator of racial integration at the University of Kentucky as the first African American to graduate from the University of Kentucky in 1958 as an undergraduate student. At the University of Kentucky, she was the director for the African American Heritage in the Department of Sociology. And in 1969 Wilkinson was the first African-American woman to become a full-time faculty member at University of Kentucky when she joined the Department of Sociology.

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