African American Pioneers Assignment Analysis

Richard Lorenzo
Prof. Arnold
Psych-120 Human Sexuality
28 February 2018
African American Pioneers Assignment
1. Inez Beverly Prosser was born in Yoakum, Texas in 1897 and died in 1934. Prosser received her Bachelors degree in Education from Samuel Houston College, and then her
Master’s in Educational Psychology from the University of Colorado. In 1933, she became the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. From 1921 to 1930, Prosser was the Dean and
Registrar at Tillotson College. She encouraged and funded to assist all of her siblings to attend college, which in result allowed all 11 of them to graduate high school, and 6 of them graduated college. One of her publications was “The Non-Academic …show more content…
Brodhead later received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Temple
University in 1937. Brodhead became a teacher and the principal in Reynolds School of
Philadelphia and in 1949 he then became the president of the American Teachers
Association. He was a chairperson of the organization for the Citizens Committee for
Integration of Negro Nurses that led to the admittance of black nursing trainees in the general Philadelphia Hospital. Brodhead also finished his dissertation, “The Educational and Socio-Economic Status of the Negro in the Secondary Schools of Pennsylvania” at
Temple University in 1937.
3. Kenneth Bancroft Clark was born in Panama Canal Zone in 1914 and died in 2005. In
1935, he received his Bachelors in Psychology from Howard University and later returned in 1936 to receive his Masters. In 1940, Clark received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University and also was the first African American to do so. In 1941,
Clark was a Professor of psychology at Queens College in New York and a year later taught at the City College of New York becoming the first African American tenured