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Francis Cecil Sumner (December 7, 1895 – January 11, 1954) was an American leader in education reform.He is commonly referred to as the "Father of Black Psychology." He is primarily known for being the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology (in 1920). [1]
This was the only course offered until 1906. The department of psychology was not developed until 1926 by Francis Sumner. [22] Psychology courses became both popular and integral courses in Black colleges, with at least one course appearing as early as 1906. Formally trained professors (both black and white) taught courses.
Francis Sumner allowed her to work part-time in the psychology department where she expanded her knowledge about psychology. [6] During her senior year in 1937 Kenneth, another mentee of Sumner's, and Mamie Clark got married; they had to elope because her mother did not want her to get married before she graduated. [2]
In September 1928, Canady's career began when Francis Sumner left the position of chair of the psychology department at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute (now West Virginia State College). From 1936 to 1939, as chair of the psychology department at West Virginia, Canady conducted and published a plethora of socio-psychological studies.
Albert Sidney Beckham (1897–1964) was the first African American to hold the title of school psychologist. [1] [2] He was a pioneering African American psychologist specializing in educational psychology and made significant contributions to the base of knowledge about the racial intelligence score disparity.
Margaret Beale Spencer is an American psychologist whose work centers on the effects of ethnicity, gender, and race on youth and adolescent development. She currently serves as the Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. [1]
Robert Val Guthrie was born in Chicago on February 14, 1932, but moved to Lexington, Kentucky, when his father became the principal at Dunbar High School. [1] Living in segregated Kentucky, Guthrie went to Black schools, Black churches, and had friends only in the Black community. [3]
Keturah Whitehurst was born in 1912 in Florida. Her father was a preacher, and her grandfather had escaped enslavement in Alabama.Keturah was an only child. [2] When Keturah was 11 years old, she began to attend a faith-based boarding school in Jacksonville, Florida, because the local school was segregated and said to be inadequate when measuring its merit by the local white school.