Inez Prosser Research Paper

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A Teacher and school administer who was regarded, as the first African American female to receive a PhD in psychology was Inez Prosser. Prosser started a college fund to support her younger siblings educations. Prosser graduated assaulted from Yoakum colored high school in 1912, and then received a degree, in training from Prairie View normal college. Inez was born on December 30th around 1895 in Texas. She was the first the child of 11 children. During her childhood she was raped by her uncle at the age of 6 who was not at all sent to jail. Years after that she was very depressed and was needed of help. She enrolled herself in college at the age of 19 at A & M University and began her career early. Prosser became an assistant

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