Frances Cress Welsing

Frances Luella Welsing (née Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of the black supremacist melanin theory.:3:80 Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy), offered her interpretation of what she described as the origins of white supremacy culture.

Frances Cress Welsing
Welsing receiving Community Award at National Black LUV Festival on September 21, 2008
Born
Frances Luella Cress

(1935-03-18)March 18, 1935
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJanuary 2, 2016(2016-01-02) (aged 80)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma materAntioch College (B.S.),
Howard University (M.D.)
OccupationPhysician
Known forThe Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991)

She was the author of The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991).

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