Psychiatrist and author Dr. Price Cobbs was born on November 2, 1928, in Los Angeles, California. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1954; and his M.D. degree in psychiatric medicine from Meharry Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee. He established a private practice with patients referred by hospitals and local doctors. The development of his private practice coincided with the civil rights movement. Cobbs noted intense social change in his patients. In 1968, he co-wrote the classic, Black Rage, with William Grier. The timely book contended that at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., all - not some - African Americans were angry. It became a successful book and made Cobbs a frequent lecturer as an authority on the black psyche. He is also the author of The Jesus Bag and Cracking the Corporate Code: From Survival to Mastery which explored the dynamics of power.
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History Makers video oral history with Dr. Price Cobbs