Keturah Whitehurst

Keturah Whitehurst (March 12, 1912 – May 20, 2000) was an African American clinical psychologist who graduated with a PhD in psychology from Radcliffe in 1952. Keturah Whitehurst is regarded as "the mother of Black psychology". After three and a half years of undergraduate education, she graduated with her Bachelors of Arts degree in English and Psychology. Whitehurst instituted the first campus counselling service at Virginia State College, where she worked as the only clinical psychologist faculty. Whitehurst also cared for her mother during her retirement, who lived several years past 100.

Quotes

• A child is a child, but a black child is something special, it is special because it is I, it is you; it is personal.