Oral history interview with Rutherford and Mildred Stevens 1991
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- Name
- Stevens, Rutherford (Interviewee)
- Stevens, Mildred (Interviewee)
- Lee, Jonathan (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Rutherford and Mildred Stevens 1991
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Rutherford and Mildred Stevens, oral history, 1991
- Abstract
- 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 t o 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.
- Collection Name
- Northside Center for Child Development project
- Subjects
- Physicians; Psychiatric clinics--New York (State); Child psychiatry; Child psychotherapy; Stevens, Rutherford; Stevens, Mildred; Clark, Kenneth; Northside Center for Child Development; Menninger Clinic Psychoanalysis; United States. Army. Race relations; United States. Army Racial integration
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1991
- Note (Biographical)
- Physician.
- Note
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
- Interviewed by Jonathan Lee on December 7, 1990, and on January 11, 1991.
- Note (Provenance)
- Rutherford Stevens, Gift 1991
- Mildred Stevens, Gift 1991
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7139988
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-803d-3x58
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.