Papers, 1931-1998 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1931-1998 (inclusive).

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Collection includes juvenile fiction and school records, 1931-1932; biographical information; correspondence between Howe and her father, 1930s-1940s; personal and professional correspondence; speeches, writings, and grant applications; correspondence, etc., concerning her expert testimony for Brown v. Board of Education; and one videotape.

2.5 linear ft.

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education

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Pinkham, Henry W.

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Howe, Louisa Pinkham.

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Sociologist and psychotherapist Louisa (Pinkham) Howe was born in Melrose, Mass., the daughter of suffragist Wenona (Osborne) and Henry W. Pinkham, and educated at Radcliffe College (A.B. 1937) and Harvard University (A.M. 1939, Ph.D. 1949). In 1951 Howe testified at a a hearing for the Brown v. Board of Education case that racial segregation was psychologically damaging to children. The first woman to hold the Sigmund Freud Memorial Fellowship, Howe was on the faculties of the Menninger Foundat...