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Born in the late 1800s, Dr. Inez Beverly Prosser became the first Black woman to earn a PhD in psychology.

Her dissertation on school integration concluded that Black children in integrated schools had a harder time — a controversial finding before Brown v. Board of Ed.

Dr. Prosser also helped several Black students receive funding for college. Tragically, she passed away just one year after earning her PhD at ~38 in a car accident. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/11/prosser #HistoryRemix #women #science

America's first black female psychologist

Despite the odds, Inez Beverly Prosser earned her doctorate in psychology 75 years ago and went on to do historic work, though her life was abruptly cut short.
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