The Bordentown School
The “Bordentown School,” founded in 1886 in Bordentown, New Jersey, began as a self-sustaining, co-educational, vocational school in a two-story residence in Bordentown, New Jersey....
Category : Education
Dr. Josephine English
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Community leader and gynecologist Dr. Josephine English was born on December 17, 1920, in Ontario, Virginia to Whittie, Sr., and Jennie English. She grew up...
Mamie Phipps Clark
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Mamie Phipps Clark was born on April 18, 1917, in Hot Spring, Arkansas. Her father, Harold H. Phipps, was a physician and her mother, Katy...
Brown v. Board and “The Doll Test”
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In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological...
Dr. Kenneth B. Clark
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Kenneth Bancroft Clark grew up with his mother in Harlem, where his childhood heroes included poet Countee Cullen, who taught at his junior high school,...
A Negro Schoolmaster in the South
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1899 account as a young, black schoolmaster in the South By W. E. Burghardt Du Bois Once upon a time,...
John Brooks Slaughter
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John Brooks Slaughter, a computer scientist is a professor of education and of engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He previously...
Donald E. Wilson
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Physician and academic administrator Dr. Donald E. Wilson was born on August 28, 1936, in Worcester, Massachusetts to Rivers and Licine Wilson. He attended Dix...
Tilahun D. Yilma
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Tilahun D. Yilma is a Distinguished Professor of Virology in the School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California,...
Dr. Moses Wharton Young
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Dr. Moses Wharton Young was born in Spartansburg, S.C., in 1903 and moved to the Washington area in 1924. He graduated from Howard University, where...