Pioneers in psychology

Francis Cecil Sumner

- was the first African American to hold a Ph. D. in Psychology

Mary Whiton Calkins

Denied PhD because she was a women but became first female president of APA in 1905

Margret washburn

First women to earn PhD in psychology

Dr. Charles Henry Thompson

first African American to receive a doctorate in Educational Psychology in 1925 from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Ruth Howard

first African American woman to earn a Ph. D. in psychology in 1934 from the University of Minnesota.