| Summary: | Psychiatrist and professor Dr. Felton James "Tony" Earls was born in January 1942, in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the oldest of four born to Ethlyn and Felton Earls II. In 1953, Earls' family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. In 1963, he graduated from Howard University with his B.S. degree in chemistry and received his medical degree from Howard University Medical School. He joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School in 1974, became professor of Child Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Child Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis in 1981, and returned to Harvard University in 1989. Earls worked as a professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor of Human Behavior and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health. Earls' research project, "The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods," led to new theories about community violence and crime.
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