Born: 1912 in
Whitestone, Virginia Died: 1990 Education Landmarks Contributions He
was responsible for a series of research projects over a span of thirty
years dealing with the self-concept of Black people. Also, he served as
an expert witness for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in cases dealing
with legal aspects of school desegregation and discrimination in
employment. In addition, he studied the factors related to racial
tension in military settings. Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: September 21,
1897 Camden, South Carolina Died: 1964 Education Landmarks
Contributions He
counseled thousands of Black youths at DuSable and innovated the
services of a school psychology clinic and developed parent counseling
groups in which the study of adolescence helped parents to deal with
their children. He also brought together ministers whose parishes
included families of DuSable students; allowing for the first time a
church-neighborhood-school relationship in that community. The
unpublished, “A Study of Retarded Children and Their Mothers” details
physical handicaps of retarded children and the relation between
child’s and mother’s tested intelligence. With
his wife Dr. Ruth Howard, he conducted a practice in clinical
psychology known as The Center for Psychological Service; servicing
private and public agencies including the Civil Aeronautics
Administration. Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications
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Born: 1898 in
Washington, New Jersey Died: 1951 Education Landmarks Contributions He
was an organizer and chairman of the Citizens Committee for Integration
of Negro Nurses. This committee ultimately led to the admittance of
black nursing trainees into the Philadelphia General Hospital. Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications “The Educational and Socio-Economic Status of the negro in the Secondary Schools of Pennsylvania” |
Born: 1901 in
Okmulgee, Oklahoma Died: 1970 Education Landmarks Contributions His
dissertation, “Test Standing and Social Setting: A Comparative Study of
the Intelligence-Test Scores of Negroes Living Under Varied
Environmental Conditions,” became a widely quoted study in sociology
and psychology. He
was instrumental in founding the West Virginia Psychological
Association, the West Virginia State Board of Psychological Examiners,
and the Charleston (West Virginia) Guidance Clinic. Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1914 in Panama
Canal Zone Died: Education Landmarks Contributions Dr.
Clark was the first Black president of the American Psychological
Association. He was also president of the Society for the Psychological
Study of Social Issues. Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: April 18, 1917
in Hot Springs, Arkansas Died: August 11, 1983 in New York Education Landmarks Contributions She
suspected that many Black children who were tested and told they were
retarded, or had some other learning disability, were in fact not
retarded. The I.Q. tests were racially and economically biased toward
white children. Mamie said this about the many cases. "Following
psychological testing it was found that most of the children were in
fact above the intelligence level placement in CRMD (Class for Children
of Retarded Mental Development) classes (I.Q.=70) and that actions on
the part of public school personnel were illegal in those schools
located in minority and deprived areas" (M. P. Clark, 1983). Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1902 in
Ettricks, Virginia Died: 1968 Education Landmarks
Contributions Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: March 14, 1910
in Unionville, Indiana Died: 1997 Education Landmarks Contributions He
served as special lecturer and consultant in orientation and training
projects conducted by the Peace Corps, Head Start, and several school
systems in Georgia. He
was associated with the research program of the Cooperative Experiment
Summer School of the Atlanta University Center and was co-director of
the Morehouse-Spelman Intensified Pre-College Program. Honors Affiliations Key words Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: July 23, 1914
Chipley, Florida Died: January 25, 1997 Education Landmarks Contributions Dr.
Goodlett and two other physicians were the only Black doctors in San
Francisco in the 1940s. For years they were allowed to treat their
patients only outside the hospitals. Goodlett led a fight to win access
for all Black doctors. In
1947 he spearheaded the fight against San Francisco's public transit
for failing to hire Black workers. Today the workforce at MUNI is over
40 percent African American. He
was elected to the Presidium of the World Peace Council and led
American delegations to numerous peace assemblies, including the World
Without Bomb Conference in Accra, the Stockholm Conference to End the
War in Vietnam and the World Assembly for Peace held in Germany. He
also traveled many times to the Soviet Union and other socialist
countries and visited Vietnam in 1975. Dr.
Goodlett was arrested at San Francisco State University in 1968 during
protests by students demanding a Black studies department. Dr.
Goodlett was an early tireless champion in the AIDS epidemic and served
on Mayor Art Agnos’ HIV Task Force in 1990. Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1900 Died: unknown Education Landmarks Contributions Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1904 in Terre
Haute, Indiana Died: 1978 Education Landmarks Contributions In
addition, he was a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology (ABEPP) and
published more than eighty books, monographs, and articles. Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1888 in News
Ferry, Virginia Died: 1948 Education Landmarks Contributions Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1911 in
Greenwood, South Carolina Died: 1974 Education Landmarks Contributions He
produced an unpublished study of Black psychologists, hoping to use the
data to assist in the recruitment of young Black scholars in psychology. He
compiled an immense data bank relating to the intelligence of Black
Americans as measured by the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Test. He
was a pioneer for Blacks in clinical psychology and a strong advocate
for equal education and employment opportunities for minority youth. Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1897 in Yoakum,
Texas Died: 1934 Education Landmarks Contributions Provided
encouragement and a college fund to assist all of her eleven brothers
and sister attend college that wanted to; allowing all to complete high
school and six complete college. Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1910 in
Alexandria, Virginia Died: 1984 Education Landmarks Contributions Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1895 in Pine
Bluff, Arkansas Died: January 12, 1954 in Washington, DC Education Landmarks Contributions Sumner
did vast amounts of research concerning equality and justice between
Blacks and Whites. For example, he studied the attitudes of Blacks and
Whites towards the administration of justice with the goal of
administering justice on a more democratic basis. Along with his
graduate students more than two thousand college students were surveyed
for the research. Under
Sumner’s tutelage many of his students went on to become leading
psychologists in their own right. One such student was Kenneth Bancroft
Clark whose psychological research on prejudice, discrimination and
segregation in the developing child was used in the 1954 Supreme Court
case Brown v. Board of Education. At
the West Virginia Collegiate Institute, Sumner created a prestigious
award that was given to a psychology student with the most outstanding
essay on a particular topic. Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1896 in Jackson,
Mississippi Died: 1980 Education Landmarks Contributions Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1909 in Chicago,
Illinois Died: Education Landmarks Contributions Turner
has served as a role model and counselor for young people, especially
troubled teen-agers, and she has been a pioneer for African Americans
in the diagnosis and treatment of delinquent behavior. She
has been a strong advocate for racial, civil and religious rights and
has worked tirelessly to ensure them for others. Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Please visit the official Charles Henry Turner website at http://psychology.okstate.edu/museum/turner/turnermain.html |
Born: 1904 in
Staunton, Virginia Died: Education Landmarks Contributions Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1914 in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Died: 1989 Education Landmarks Contributions Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
Born: 1908 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died: 1988 Education Landmarks Contributions Honors Affiliations Key words Web links Selected Works
and Publications |
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