WHAT IS JESTROW FIRST NAME. THE FIRST {AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE)? TO GET/RECEIVED A PH.D IN PSYCHOLOGY IN 1886

-- M.LOWE (MLOWE@SWCHILDS.COM), January 26, 2002

Answers

I'm afraid I've never heard of Jestrow. According to the APA's "Timeline of Challenge and Progress: The Inclusion of People of Color in Psychology in the United States" (http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/visions/time1.html):

1920 Francis C. Sumner is the first African American awarded the PhD in psychology from a U.S. institution (Clark University); dissertation title: "Psychoanalysis of Freud and Adler." (Guthrie, 1994; Street, 1994).

J. Henry Alston is first African American to publish a research article (titled "Psychophysics of the spatial condition of the fusion of warmth and cold in heat") in an exclusively psychological journal, The American Journal of Psychology (T. C. Cadwallader as cited by Benimoff, 1995). [Though, interestingly, I can find no such article in the PsycInfo database. -cdg-]

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), January 26, 2002.

Joseph JASTROW received what is generally considered the first American PhD specifically in psychology in 1886 from Johns Hopkins University. he was not an African-American.

-- Raymond Fancher (fancher@yorku.ca), January 27, 2002.