Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller – The Nation’s First Black Psychiatrist

By Dannie Gore Sr.

Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller, born in Liberia on August 11, 1872, was the grandson of an American slave who had purchased his freedom and emigrated to Africa.

Fuller was a graduate of Boston University Medical School and eventually worked as a pathologist at Westborough State Hospital for the Insane, becoming the nation’s first Black psychiatrist.