Sumner, Francis Cecil
1895-1954 · Contribution: 1920-1954
Education
First African American to earn a PhD in psychology; known as 'the Father of Black Psychology' for building Howard University's psychology department into a national training ground for Black psychologists
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Sumner opened the discipline of psychology to Black Americans as its first Black PhD, then built the department that produced most of the field's early Black scholars.
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