Oral history interview with Edna O. Meyers [electronic resource], 1991

Biographical Note

Psychologist.

Scope and Contents

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.

Subjects

• Bibliotherapy.
• Child psychology.
• Clark, Kenneth.
• Clark, Mamie.
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Social conditions--1950s.
• Interviews.
• Learning, Psychology of.
• Lee, Jonathan, interviewer.
• Modern dance--1930s.
• Northside Center for Child Development.
• Ocko, Edna--Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Psychiatric clinics--New York (State)--Harlem (New York)--Fund-raising.
• Psychiatric social work.
• Psychologists--Interviews.
• Public schools--Counseling of--New York (State)--Harlem (New York)

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Northside Center for Child Development, Inc., 1991.