As the eldest of eleven brothers and sisters, Inez Prosser lead her family to heights of academia, scaling the educational ladder with apparent ease, becoming the first African-American woman to earn her Ph.D.

As a child growing up in Yoakum Texas this voracious reader was marked for victory and upon high school graduation was sent to Prairie View Normal to begin her academic pursuit and begin training for a teaching career. She then transferred to Samuel Houston College where she received her BA in education. Overcoming the overt racial harriers and gender roadblocks that threatened to bar her from access, Ms. Prosser triumphed against great odds.

Through her teaching and administrative position in Tougaloo Mississippi, her graduate studies were financed at the University of Cincinnati. At thirty-six, Ms Prosser was awarded her Ph.D. in educational psychology with the Presentation of her dissertation "Non-Academic Development of Negro Children in Mixed and Segregated Schools."

This rare research was deemed one of the "first early investigations into the social domain of elementary school children." Devoted to the education of her siblings, Inez Prosser dedicated any supplementary funds that she received to further their educational pursuits. Thus, she helped fund over half of her siblings' college educations.

Tragically, only one year following her remarkable accomplishment having tiresomely overcome incredible odds, Inez Prosser’s life was taken from her in a fatal car crash near Shreveport, Louisiana. However, her glory pervades our memories and her historical anomaly lives on vicariously through every individual who faces societal, racial, and gender discrimination.

R.I.P. 1934