Washington, D.C. (March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) age 80 yrs

Frances Luella Cress Welsing was an American psychiatrist, author, teacher and well-known proponent of the melanin theory. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, offered her interpretation. She described what she saw as the origins of white supremacy culture. She was the author of The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991). Dr. Welsing scientifically decoded White supremacy as a reaction to the fear of genetic annihilation if race mixing occurs. Dr. Welsing was born into a prominent family of Black over-achievers in Chicago. Her father, Dr. Henry Cress was a physician. His father was also a physician. Her mother, Ida Mae Griffin Cress, a schoolteacher whose parents founded the Griffin Funeral Home. The first Black mortuary in Chicago. Her scholarship scientifically decoded White supremacy. Welsing dedicated her life to teach the facts of racism and white supremacy.