Inez Beverly Prosser
Born: 1897 in Yoakum, Texas
Died: 1934
Education
- Prairie View Normal College
- 1924 B.A. “with distinction” from Samuel Houston College in Education
- Masters in Educational Psychology from the University of Colorado
- 1933 Ph.D. Educational Psychology from the University of Cincinnati
Landmarks
- Taught education at Tillotson College in Austin Texas.
- 1921-1930 became Dean and Registrar at Tillotson College.
- 1930 Accepted a teaching position and administrative duties at Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi.
- 1933 First Black American woman to receive a Ph.D. in educational psychology.
Contributions
- Her dissertation the “Non-Academic Development of Negro Children in Mixed and Segregated Schools”, for which she earned her Ph. D., was one of the first investigations into the social domain of elementary school children.
- Provided encouragement and a college fund to assist all of her eleven brothers and sister attend college that wanted to; allowing all to complete high school and six complete college.
Honors
- 1968 San Antonio, Texas at the HemisFair exposition she was cited for her contribution to Texas culture.
- Rockefeller Foundation General Education Board Fellowship
Affiliations
- Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
Keywords
- Education
- Texas history
- Segregation
Selected Works and Publications
- The Non-Academic Development of Negro Children in Mixed and Segregated Schools”