Background
The only child of David W. and Josephine (Miller) Jenkins, Martin was born in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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Martin Martin David Jenkins
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Jenkins attended a racially segregated public elementary school and later entered Wiley High School, a large, integrated school of over 1500 students, where he was one of only a few African-American students in his graduating class of 1921. Jenkins graduated from Howard University in 1925 with a Bachelor of Surgery in Engineering.
Career
Jenkins"s father was a civil engineer, a position that placed his family among the small number of middle-class African-American families living in Terre Haute at that time. As captain of the track team and its top sprinter, Jenkins established Vigo County records in the 50-yard (56 seconds), 100-yard (102) and 220-yard (240) dashes. He secured a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from Indiana State in 1931 and, on September 7, 1927 wed Elizabeth Lacy.
After teaching briefly at Virginia State College (now Virginia State University), Jenkins began graduate work at Northwestern University under Terre Haute native and Indiana State alumnus, Paul A. Witty.
He earned a master’s degree in 1933 and a doctorate in education in 1935. His dissertation was a socio-psychological study of African-American children of superior intelligence.
Before becoming President of Morgan State College in Baltimore in 1948, Jenkins was registrar and professor of education at North Carolina A&T(1935–1937). Dean of instruction at Cheyney State (Pa) Teachers College (now Cheyney University)(1937–1938).
And professor of education at Howard University (1938–1948).
A diplomate of the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Psychology, Martin published more than 80 scholarly articles and monographs. He also served on several presidential commissions, councils and task forces. Honored as a Distinguished Alumnus by Indiana State in 1964, Jenkins was also awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Liberia, Delaware State College, Howard University and Johns Hopkins University.
After his retirement as president of Morgan State in 1970, he became the director of the Office of Urban Affairs for the American Council of Education.
Jenkins"s study of the socio-psychological study of African American children of superior intelligence went unpublished.
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