Oral history interview with Edna O. Meyers 1991

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Name: Ocko, Edna (Interviewee); Lee, Jonathan (Interviewer)
Title: Oral history interview with Edna O. Meyers 1991
Other Titles: Reminiscences of Edna O. Meyers: oral history, 1991
Abstract: 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 ho me 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.
Collection Name: Northside Center for Child Development project
Subjects: Psychologists; Modern dance--1930s; Bibliotherapy; Psychiatric clinics--Fund-raising.--New York (State); Child psychology; Learning, Psychology of; Public schools--Counseling of--New York (State); Psychiatric social work; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions 1950s; Ocko, Edna; Clark, Mamie; Clark, Kenneth; Northside Center for Child Development
Format: oral histories; sound recordings
Genre: Interviews
Date: 1991

Note (Biographical): Psychologist.
Note (Funding): Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note: Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.; 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 January 14, 1991.
Note (Provenance): Edna O. Meyers, Gift 1991
Language: English
Library Location: Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Catalog Record: 7139841
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-byds-ba40
Related URLs: Available digital content for this interview.