Clark, Mamie (18 April 1917–11 August 1983), psychologist and community mental health pioneer, was born Mamie Katherine Phipps in Hot Springs, Arkansas, one of two children and the only daughter of Harold H. Phipps, a prominent physician and resort owner, and Katie Florence Phipps. She described her upbringing in the Jim Crow South as largely happy and secure despite racial tensions and the economic privations of the Great Depression....
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Clark, Mamie (1917-1983), psychologist and community mental health pioneer
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Hollingworth, Leta Anna Stetter (1886-1939), psychologist and feminist
Rosalind Rosenberg
Hollingworth, Leta Anna Stetter (25 May 1886–27 November 1939), psychologist and feminist, was born in a dugout near Chadron, Nebraska, the daughter of John G. Stetter and Margaret Elinor Danley. Her father, a fun-loving but irresponsible Virginian of German descent, worked as a peddler, entertainer, and itinerant cowboy. Her mother, the well-educated daughter of a neighboring Scotch-Irish farm family, died in 1890, leaving three girls to be reared by their maternal grandparents. At twelve Leta and her sisters moved to Valentine, Nebraska, to live with their father and his new wife, a troubled woman who made life a “fiery furnace.”...
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Leta Stetter Hollingworth. Courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society.
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Pruette, Lorine Livingston (3 Nov. 1896–20 Dec. 1976), psychologist, social scientist, and feminist
Mary K. Trigg
Pruette, Lorine Livingston (3 Nov. 1896–20 Dec. 1976), psychologist, social scientist, and feminist, was born in Millersburg, Tennessee to Eulalia Miller Pruette, a former schoolteacher, and Oscar Davis Pruette, a gentleman farmer. Raised a daughter of the South, Pruette spent her first five years in a small cottage on one hundred acres where her father raised pigs, hens, cattle, and horses. This first home was isolated and rural, and her parents’ marriage was contentious. Pruette later recalled her childhood as lonely and described herself as “the odd ball” (Trigg, p. 37)....
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Sandler, Bernice Resnick (3 March 1928–5 January 2019), psychologist, educational consultant, and feminist activist
Susan Ware
Sandler, Bernice Resnick (3 March 1928–5 January 2019), psychologist, educational consultant, and feminist activist, was born Bernice Resnick in Brooklyn, New York, the younger of two daughters of Abraham Hyman Resnick and Ida Ernst Resnick, who owned a women’s sportswear store in Rockaway, New Jersey. Known as “Bunny” to family and friends since childhood, in ...
