Francis Cecil Sumner

Historical Events

Segregation

• Sumner set a separate table in the dinning hall at Clark University

• Exclusion from Educational, occupational, military opportunities

• Restricted to only agricultural and vocational trades

Historical Events

• African Americans considered inferior in intelligence and morality

• Misused intelligence tests to prove racial inferiority and ethnic minority

• In 1920, Warren Harding the president of the United States said social equality between blacks and whites would never be possible due to "Fundamental, inescapable, and eternal differences of race'

Biography

• It became known as the black Harvard University

• He remarried twice but had no children

• Sumner die of a heart attack on January 12, 1954 while shoveling

• Sumners is now known as the father of psychology

Francis Cecil Sumner

Work Cited

• http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-health/psychologists/sumner-prosser.aspx

Biography

• http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=J65q2BTb3q4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA187&dq=francis+Cecil+Sumner&ots=HQXsiqjZIL&sig=70iwwlRoNYNTPNkfH1ETKQlHGFk#v=onepage&q=francis%20Cecil%20Sumner&f=false

• June 14, 1920- Sumner became the first African American to receive his PHD. in Psychology .

Biography

• http://psychology.okstate.edu/museum/afroam/bio.html

• Before becoming chairman of Psychology department at Howard University, Sumner taught at Wilberforce Southern University and West Virginia Collegiate Institution

Admission to School

• Born: December 7, 1895 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

• Died: January 12, 1954 in Washington, DC

• He was the second son of David Alexander and Ellen Lillian Sumner

• He was the youngest brother to Eugene Sumner.

• Elementary education was in the New Jersey and Virginia school systems

• Sumner helped Howard University gain a reputation for helping African Americans receive the highest education in psychology

• Sumner was denied by the University of Illinois and American University to attended their graduate school.

• So Instead he decided to attend Lincoln University and Clark University

Biography

• Secondary education was self taught with help of his parents.

• In 1911, at the age of 15, he submitted a written examination and was accepted to enroll at Lincoln University.

• In 1915 he graduate magna cum luade

• G. Stanley Hall helped Francis Cecil Sumner get accepted into Clark University.

1895-1954

• He graduate valedictorian of his class with a Bachelors Degree in English, in 1916

Biography

• He returned to Lincoln University as a graduate student and a German and Psychology professor.

• In 1917 he received his Masters Degree.

• After graduation, he was accepted into Clark University with a senior scholarship in psychology.

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• In 1917, Sumner put his education on hold to serve in the United States military in World War I , in 1918

• 1919- Sumner went back to Clark University