Beverly Daniel Tatum
Psychologist, educator and author
Beverly Daniel Tatum is an American psychologist and educator who writes about race and racial identity. She is President Emerita of Spelman College.
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American Born 1954 in Tallahassee, United States
About Beverly Daniel Tatum
Beverly Daniel Tatum was born in 1954 in Tallahassee, Florida. She trained as a psychologist and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. Her research and writing look at race in education, how teenagers develop a racial identity, and the experience of Black families and youth in white neighborhoods. She began as a Black Studies instructor at UC Santa Barbara, and she also chaired the psychology department at Mount Holyoke College. Tatum went on to serve as president of Spelman College, a historically Black women's college in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2014 the American Psychological Association gave her its Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology. Her book in our catalog is Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?