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Oran Wendle Eagleson

1910–1997

United States

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Oran Wendle Eagleson (1910–1997) was an American psychologist. He taught at the North Carolina College for Negroes, before teaching at Spelman College, Atlanta, where he became the dean of instruction and later the Callaway Professor of Psychology. He was the third black person in the United States to receive a doctorate degree in psychology.

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