Partial Bibliography of the History of Black Women Psychologists

Aiyegbayo, O. (2005). Waveney Bushell: A pioneer black educational psychologist. History & Philosophy of Psychology, 7, 36-44.

Benjamin, L. T., Jr., Henry, K. D., & McMahon, L. R. (2005). Inez Beverly Prosser and the education of African Americans. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 41, 43-62.

Browne, R. B. (1969). Love my children: The education of a teacher. New York: Meredith Press. [The memoir of Rose Butler Browne, the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in education from Harvard University.]

Clark, M. P. (1976). Interview with Ed Edwin, Columbia University Libraries Oral History Research Office. Available on-line at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/nny/clarkm/index.html

Clark, M. P. (1983). Mamie Phipps Clark. In A. O'Connell and N. F. Russo (Eds.), Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology (pp. 267-276). New York: Columbia University Press.

Farley, F. & Perry, A. M. (2002). Keturah Elizabeth Whitehurst. American Psychologist, 57, 434-435.

Graham, S. (Ed.)(2006). Our children too: A history of the first 25 years of the Black Caucus of the Society for Research in Child Development. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Guthrie, R. V. (1990). Mamie Phipps Clark: 1917-1983. In A. N. O'Connell, & N. F. Russo (Eds.), Women in psychology: A bio-bibliographic sourcebook (pp. 66-74). New York: Greenwood Press.

Guthrie, R. V. (1998). Even the rat was white: A historical view of psychology (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. [Includes short biographical sketches of Inez Prosser, Ruth Howard, Alberta Banner Turner, and Mamie Phipps Clark.]

Howard, R. W. (1983). Ruth Howard. In A. O'Connell and N. F. Russo (Eds.), Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology (pp. 57-66). New York: Columbia University Press.

Keita, G. & Clune, G. (2001). Carolyn R. Payton (1925-2001). American Psychologist. 56, 1044-1045.

Lal, S. (2002). Giving children security: Mamie Phipps Clark and the racialization of child psychology. American Psychologist, 57, 20-28.

Markowitz, G., & Rosner, D. (1996). Children, race, and power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. [Includes extended discussions of Mamie Phipps Clark’s life and work.]

Payton, C. R. (1988). Carolyn Robertson Payton. In A. N. O’Connell, A. N. and N. F. Russo (Eds.), Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology, Volume 2 (pp. 229-241). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Warren, W. (1999). Black women scientists in the United States. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. [Includes information on Inez Prosser, Mamie Clark, Ruth Howard, Alberta Banner Turner, and others.]