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Frances Cress Welsing

1935 – 2016

United States (Chicago; Washington, D.C.)

Washington, D.C. psychiatrist known for her Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and The Isis Papers (1991), which framed white supremacy psychologically; her theories drew strong criticism as pseudoscientific.

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General Oliver O. Howard House on the Howard University campus, Washington, D.C., where Welsing earned her MD
Credit: Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress. License: Public domain (U.S. government HABS photo).

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  1. BlackPast, "Frances Cress Welsing (1935–2016)" (Reference)
  2. Jet, "Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, 'Isis Papers' Author, Dies at 80" (2016) (Reference)
  3. The Charlotte Post (via The Washington Informer), Stacy M. Brown, "'Isis Papers' author Frances Cress Welsing dead at 80" (2016) (Reference)

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