Inez prosser biography
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Inez Beverly Prosser
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Training Location(s):
PhD, University of Cincinnati ()
Primary Affiliation(s):
Tillotson College ()
Tougaloo College ()
Career Focus:
Educational psychology.
Biography
Inez Beverly Prosser was born on December 30th around in Texas; the exact year of her birth being unknown. Prosser was the first daughter of 11 children. Her father, Samuel Andrew Beverly, worked as a waiter and her mother, Veola Hamilton, worked as a homemaker. The family moved several times when the children were young, first in to Yoakum in the south of Texas and then in to Corpus Christi, along the Gulf Coast. Prosser and her older brother, Leon, returned to Yoakum in in order to attend high school. After graduating as valedictorian of the Yoakum Colored School in , Prosser e
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Inez Beverly Prosser, PhD, (), was the first Black, (African-American), woman to have earned a PhD in Psychology in in the United States of America. Having lived what some would consider a short life, (approximately 38 years), Dr. Posser died in a motor vehicle accident. Her birth date, though not exactly known, is recorded as December 30, in San Marcos, Texas, United States of America.
It is said that her parents, who thought they could only afford to send one of their eleven children to college, planned to send her brother Leon, but he and Inez convinced them to send her instead. It was an investment that reaped dividends as she later assisted five of her siblings to gain higher education through an education fund which she started. She acquired her early education in Texas and despite facing the significant obstacles of racism and sexism, her academic achievements were impressive. Prosser graduated at the top of her class from both her high school and Prairie View State No
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Dr. Inez Beverly Prosser, PhD
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