Dr. Inez Prosser

America's first black female psychologist Inez Beverly Prosser, PhD, had a most improbable life. Born into a family of 11 children at the end of the 19th century in south central Texas and educated in its "colored schools," she taught for 18 years, earning a PhD in psychology in 1933, the first such degree earned by an African American woman. … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: African American Psychologists and Psychiatrists