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Howe, Louisa Pinkham (1915-1998)
Biographical Note:
Louisa
Pinkham Howe was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1915 to Wenona
and Henry Pinkham. Dr. Howe graduated with a B.A. from Radcliff College
in 1937, and subsequently earned her M.A. (1939) and Ph.D. (1949) in
sociology from Harvard University. She was the first woman to hold the
Sigmund Freud Memorial Fellowship. She worked in the US Bureau of
Prisons, taught sociology at Skidmore and joined the faculty at the
Menninger Foundation. Here she testified in the famous trial, Brown vs.
the Topeka Board of Education, and her disposition, that segregation
was psychologically damaging to children, played an important part in
the Supreme Court decision of 1954. She held teaching positions and
carried out research in the University of Kansas, UC Berkley, Harvard
School of Public Health, and many other places. In her later
years Dr. Howe became interested in the therapeutic uses of movement,
and joined the faculty of the Psychomotor Institute. She was active in
many professional organizations, including American Sociological
Association and Boston Psychoanalytic Society and
Institute, published many scientific papers, several of them on
the problems of drug-abuse, and fought for social justice throughout
her life.
Summary: the
collection constitutes one manuscript box of papers,
correspondence, historical Brown vs. Board of Education disposition
materials, obituaries and biographies. The BPSI Archives also
holds typescripts of the two interviews given by Louisa
Howe to Catherine Holt and David J. Kallen in 1995-1996
(see Oral History Transcripts, 1961-2002). The materials were
donated to BPSI by Dr. Howe's daughter Catherine Frances Holt of
Berkley, California.
Finding
Aid for
this collection is available
here (viewing it requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Related BPSI Collections
Oral History Transcripts
Related Sites
Origins and History of Pesso System/Psychomotor Therapy by Louisa P. Howe
Psychomotor Institute Endorsement Letter from Louisa P. Howe, Ph.D (1995).
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