Oliver Cox (died in 1974) taught at Wiley College (founded in 1873) before moving to Missouri.
Oliver Cromwell Cox (24 August 1901  4 September 1974) was a Trinidadian-American sociologist noted for his early Marxist viewpoint on fascism. Cox first initiated his teaching career at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas. Founded in 1873 by the Methodist Episcopal Church's Bishop Isaac Wiley and certified in 1882 by the Freedman's Aid Society, it is one of the oldest predominantly black colleges west of the Mississippi River. Later in 1949, he moved to Missouri, where he taught at Lincoln University until March 11, 1970 where he told the president at the college, Walter Daniels, that he was retiring. 
