Alberta

Banner Turner
Masai Pace
Early Life
● Alberta Banner turner was born on
March 17, 1909 in Chicago, to
James and Mable Banner.
● She showed her passion for civil
rights from a young age, when she
was 16 she protested the racial
segregation at her shcool by
ttendting a whites-only prom
Education
● Turner attended the Chicago’s East High
School in 1925. She was the first member
of her family to earn a high school diploma.
● Turner attended Ohio State University for
her bachelor's, her master's in educations,
and her doctoral degree.
● In 1935, Turner received a Ph.D. for her
dissertation entitled: "The Effect of Practice
on the Perception and Memorization of
Digits Presented in Single Exposures."
Ohio state university (1925)
 Career
● Turner became head of the home economics department at
Winston-Salem College from 1935 through 1936 she then
spent the next two years at Lincoln University as head of the
home economics department and a professor of psychology
● Turner moved to Baton Rouge’s Southern University and
began heading the school's home economics department from
1938 to 1939
● Turner returned to north carolina where She served as the head
of Bennett College for Women's home economics department
until 1942. During her tenure, she lectured on consumer issues
at the college, and in the summer of 1941, she became the first
black woman to be awarded a fellowship to Stephens College
in Columbia
Career cont.
● In 1944 Turner became a clinician at the Ohio
Bureau of Juvenile Research.
● She earned the position of Supervising
Psychologist at the Juvenile Diagnostic Center in
1953 and was promoted to Chief Psychologist in
1959.
● She also worked as a clinical psychologist working
with juveniles at Marysville Reformatory for
Women.
● In 1963 Turner was promoted to the Central
Administrative Office of the Ohio Youth
Commission and became the director of research for
the Ohio Youth Commission, while continuing her
work at the Ohio State University and the Ohio
Reformatory for Women.
● Turner also worked with the Criminal Justice
Supervisory Commission from 1972 to 1976.
During this time, she also served as a consultant to
the National Advisory Council on Vocational
Rehabilitation
Bibliography

● "The Effect of Practice on the Perception

and Memorization of Digits Presented in
Single Exposures."
Death

Alberta Banner Turner died on

January 31, 2008 in Hilo, Hawaii,
she was survived by her son, John
Turner and her half-brother, James
L. Banner
Accolades
● 1935 the first black female to earn a PhD from
Ohio State University
● 1966 Named one of the "Ten Women of the Year"
by the Columbus Citizen-Journal.
● 1971 Given a citation from the State of Ohio and
the Ohio Youth Commission read, “Alberta
Banner Turner, Ph.D., has been synonymous with
mention of the field of juvenile rehabilitation and
treatment in Ohio for over 27 years. She has
played a very active role in its history”
● Alpha Kappa Alpha Award for Community and
Scholastic Endeavors
● She holds Diplomat status in Clinical Psychology
(ABEPP) and is certified by the Ohio
Psychological Association.
FIN
Sources Cited
● Ohio State News (1999). Five receive special
commencement honors at Ohio State, Columbus.
The Ohio State University: Media relations.
Retrieved; 15 February 2011 from:
http://www.osu.edu/news/releases/99-08-24_Com
mencement_Honors_for_Five.html
● https://centerhistorypsychology.wordpress.com/2012/09/1
4/alberta-banner-turner-featured-for-archives-month/
● https://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-health/p
sychologists/turner
● "Ohio State University Library Archives"
● Feminist Voices.
http://www.feministvoices.com/alberta-banner-tur
ner/
● https://psychology.okstate.edu/museum/afroam/bio.html
● https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dispatch/name/albe
rta-turner-obituary?pid=102341560
● https://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-
health/psychologists/turner