Oral history interview with Rutherford and Mildred Stevens [electronic resource], 1991

Biographical Note

Physician.

Scope and Contents

Early childhood and education, Philadelphia; B.A., Howard University, 932; M.D., Howard University, 1939; Officer, World War II, 1939-1945; difficulty in obtaining Medical Officer status because of race; Medical Officer, 1941-1945; Army Neuropsychiatric Consultation program; early Army integration efforts; Menninger's Psychiatric Clinic, early experiences: psychoanalysis, work with patients; move to New York: private practice; Northside Center for Child Development [Northside]: lack of interest in out-patient psychiatry after World War II, attitudes toward psychiatry of blacks and whites, attitudes of Kenneth Clark and others toward analysis, lay therapists; meeting of prospective spouse at Northside; work with children at Northside; Northside's lack of size, resources; Mildred Stevens' recollections of early Northside's diversity, high ideals; Northside's reputation; shared recollections of various children.

Subjects

• Child psychiatry.
• Child psychotherapy.
• Clark, Kenneth.
• Interviews.
• Lee, Jonathan, interviewer.
• Menninger Clinic--Psychoanalysis.
• Northside Center for Child Development.
• Oral histories.
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Psychiatric clinics--New York (State)--Harlem (New York)
• Stevens, Mildred, interviewee.
• Stevens, Mildred--Interviews.
• Stevens, Rutherford--Interviews.
• United States. Army--Racial integration.
• United States. Army. Medical Officers' Reserve Corps--World War, 1939-1945--Race relations.

Access Conditions

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