| Summary: | Management executive and psychology professor Dr. Terrence James Roberts was born on December 3, 1941. He attended Horace Mann High School in 1955, when the Little Rock School System gradually began to integrate the public schools. As a member of The Little Rock Nine, Roberts endured conflicts throughout the 1957-1958 school year at Central High School. The following year the school closed in an attempt to avoid integration. Roberts moved to Los Angeles, California where he completed high school in 1959. In 1967, he received his B.S. degree in sociology. He received his M.A. degree in social welfare from UCLA. In 1976, he received his Ph.D. in psychology from Southern Illinois University. In 1994, Roberts became the psychology department chair at Antioch University, Los Angeles. In 1999, President Clinton awarded Roberts and the Little Rock Nine, the Congressional Gold Medal. As CEO of Terrence J. Roberts & Associates, he provided private counseling and consultant services.
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