Background
She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Gloria Johnson-Powell
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She completed her residency at University of California, Los Angeles and was on the faculty there for fifteen years before joining the Harvard Medical School (where she was on the faculty for ten years).
Career
She received her Bachelor of Arts in economics and sociology from Mount Holyoke College in 1958 and her Doctor of Medicine in 1962 from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. She is currently the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health associate dean for cultural diversity and a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics. Civil Rights Movement
In his 1999 book, The Children, David Halberstam includes her as one of the key figures in the Civil Rights Movement.
Scholarship
Her text, Black Monday"s Children, discusses the effect of desegregation on southern black children and she has continued working with minority children.
Johnson-Powell has also published a book about the impact of sexual abuse on children.
