Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson, 1901-1980

African American psychologist, teacher, art instructor, actress, dancer, and model.

From the description of Anita Thompson Dickinson Reynolds collection, 1850-1980. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941271

Anita Thompson Dickinson Reynolds was a psychologist, teacher, art instructor, actress, dancer, and model. She lived and studied in Europe during the early 1930s and 1940s. Later, in the 1950s, she moved to the Virgin Islands, where she resided until her death in 1980. In the Virgin Islands, she served as manager of the Virgin Islands Employment Service, and was also an instructor of psychology at the College of the Virgin Islands until her retirement in 1976.

• 1901 March 28: Born, Provident Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
• 1906: Attended Washington Street Grammar School, Chicago, Illinois. (Received teaching certificate from Coppin Normal, Baltimore, MD.; and studied at New School for Social Research, William Allenson White Institute for Psychiatry - New York, UCLA, Columbia University, Chicago Art Institute, and University of California, Berkeley).
• 1926 - 1928 : Supervisor, teaching art, Baltimore Public Schools.
• 1928 - 1940 : Resided in Europe and North Africa: England, Holland, Italy, Spain, Tunisia, Morocco (6 months or more in each place, 18 months in Morocco).
• 1931 - 1940 : Married to Charles Henri Ford.
• 1941 - 1944 : Instructor, American Women's Voluntary Services, Navy Department.
• 1941 - 1951 : Married to Dwight Lloyd Dickinson.
• 1944 - 1948 : Psychologist - LeFarque Clinic, Harlem, New York.
• 1948: Attended Mental Health Congress, Survey Intergroup Tensions, London.
• 1948 - 1949 : Attended UCLA.
• 1949: Psychologist, Child House, Los Angeles, California.
• 1950 - 1951 : Student Advisor, Elisabeth Irwin High School of the Little Red School House, New York.
• 1952: Married Guy Reynolds.
• 1960 - 1974 : Manager, Virgin Islands Employment Service, St. Croix, Virgin Islands.
• 1974 - 1976 : Instructor, Introduction to Psychology, College of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix, Virgin Islands.
• 1980 December: Died in the Virgin Islands.

From the guide to the Anita Thompson Dickinson Reynolds Collection, 1850-1980, (Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University)