Douglas Covington

Harold Douglas Covington (1935-2012) served as chancellor or president of several universities in the United States including 10 years at Radford University, where he was the first African-American president of a predominantly white state-owned university in Virginia.

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he moved with his family to Ohio, where he graduated from historically Black, Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, and earned master's and doctoral degrees at Ohio State University in 1958 and 1966.

He served as chancellor of Winston-Salem State University 1977-84 and as president of Alabama A&M University 1984–87, and Cheyney University in Pennsylvania, 1992–95. After retirement, he briefly served as interim president of Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia.

The Ohio State library holds his thesis and dissertation:

Buried at Roselawn Memorial Gardens Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, USA