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Sumner was a pioneer in the field of race psychology. Who laid the framework for future research on the topic, contradicting many psychologists' ideas on race. Sumner's study included a wide range of themes, including the variations in mental health between white and black people, and African-American perspectives of the judicial system.
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.
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.
Francis Sumner – first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology at an American university; Amy Tanner – psychologist; Lewis Terman – pioneer in cognitive psychology (PhD 1905) L.T.E. Thompson – physicist and ballistician (Physics MA 1915, PhD 1917)
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]
Williams wrote over 60 scholarly papers throughout his career on topics across psychology and black studies. [5] In 2014, Washington University honored his legacy with a conference regarding the importance of maintaining diversity within academia. In 2017, he received a Legacy Award at the university's Trailblazers recognition ceremony.
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.
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]