Education
Dymally received his secondary education at St. Benedict and Naparima Secondary School located in San Fernando, Trinidad.
He moved to the United States to study journalism at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. After a semester there, he moved to the greater Los Angeles, California area to attend Chapman University, and completed a Bachelor of Arts in education at California State University, Los Angeles in 1954. Dymally became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity in 1949.
In 1969, while serving in the California State Legislature, he earned a Master's degree in government from California State University, Sacramento. Dymally earned his doctorate in human behavior from United States International University in San Diego (now Alliant International University).
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