This paper shows that Thelma Berlack Boozer (1906-2001) was the first Black person to hold professorial rank in a School of Journalism at a US university (not Dr Armistead Pride, as has previously been assumed). The School of Journalism at Lincoln University (MO) appointed her Associate Professor and Acting Director in 1942. She held these posts until 1944. The paper examines her appointment at Lincoln and discusses why scholars have mostly forgotten her contributions to HBCU journalism education.