Reminiscences of Edna O. Meyers: oral history, 1991.

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Reminiscences of Edna O. Meyers: oral history, 1991.

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Childhood in Harlem; founder, New Dance Group, 1932; recollections of Northside Center for Child Development [Northside]: first associations with Northside through counseling of son, subsequent remedial work as reading therapist, chief psychologist: development of new approach to learning assessment, teaching through brain training; experiences counseling in Harlem public schools; description of home environment of typical Northside client; character of Harlem neighborhood in early 1950s; division of responsibility among social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists at Northside: comparisons of philosophies, approaches to jobs; role of Board of Directors in promotion, fund-raising; recollections of Kenneth and Mamie Clark.

Transcript: 54 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Clark, Mamie.

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Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983

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Kenneth Clark was an art historian and a patron of the arts. He was born in London, and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained a second class in modern history. In the autumn of 1925, art historian Bernard Berenson asked him to assist him in the revision of his corpus of Florentine drawings. In 1929 he was offered the task of cataloguing Leonardo da Vinci's drawings held at Windsor Castle. In 1931 he was appointed keeper of the Department of Fine Art at the Ashmolean...

Northside Center for Child Development

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The Northside Center for Child Development is a child guidance clinic for troubled children in New York City founded in 1946 by Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark and Dr. Kenneth B. Clark. From the guide to the Northside Center for Child Development records, 1947-1972, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Meyers, Edna O.

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Psychologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Edna O. Meyers: oral history, 1991. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527909 ...