
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 29, 1993                   TAG: 9303290069
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: BOULDER, COLO.                                LENGTH: Short

STUART COOK DIES; WROTE ON LANDMARK SCHOOL BIAS

Stuart W. Cook, a social psychologist whose research helped shape the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling banning school segregation, has died at age 79.

Cook, former chairman of the psychology department at the University of Colorado, died Thursday at his home in Boulder.

While serving as a captain in the Army Air Corps in World War II, Cook was inspired to dedicate his work to studying prejudice and ways to overcome it after witnessing Nazi atrocities against Jews.

He was studying the effects of legally mandated segregation on black children in the 1950s when he met future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who was then head counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Cook later co-authored a report used by the Supreme Court in the landmark case Brown vs. Board of Education, which barred segregation in public schools.

Cook served as a president of the New York State Psychological Association, the Eastern Psychological Association, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He also led the committee that formulated the American Psychological Association's first code of ethics.

by CNB