Violence in American Schools

Beatrix A. Hamburg was born Beatrix Ann McCleary in Jacksonville, Florida on October 19, 1923. She was the first self-identifying black woman to graduate from Vassar College in 1944 and the first black woman to graduate from Yale Medical School in 1948. She became a researcher in child development and psychology, working on subjects like school violence and peer counseling for students. She taught at Stanford's School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Her works include Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development written with David Hamburg and Violence in American Schools edited with Delbert S. Elliott and Kirk R. Williams. She died from Alzheimer's disease on April 15, 2018 at the age of 94.

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