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Contributions of African Americans to the Field of Psychology

University of Alabama

Susie A. Spence

Safiya R. Omari

Jackson State University

This article highlights the contributions of African Americans to the field of psychology with a focus on the struggles of early African American psychologists, the rise of Afrocentrism, and recent theoretical models developed by African American psychologists. The conclusion of this work is that psychology is much richer because of the contributions of African American psychologists.

Key Words: history of psychology • Black psychology

Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, 40-64 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0021934704263124


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