Frances Cress Welsing


Frances Cress Welsing was an American afrocentrist psychiatrist. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of ColorConfrontation and Racism , offered her interpretation on the origins of white supremacy culture.

Welsing was born Frances Luella Cress in Chicago, Illinois on March 18, 1935. Her father, Henry N. Cress was a physician, and her mother, Ida Mae Griffen, was a teacher. In 1957, she earned a B.S. degree at Antioch College and in 1962 received a M.D. at Howard University. In the 1960s, Welsing moved to Washington, D.C. and worked at many hospitals, especially childrens hospitals.

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