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2 mag 2005 · Kenneth B. Clark, the psychologist and educator whose 1950 report showing the destructive effect of school segregation influenced the United States Supreme Court to hold school...
28 mag 2003 · Psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, PhD, demonstrated that segregation harmed black children's self-images. Their testimony before the Supreme Court contributed to the landmark Supreme Court case that desegregated American public schools: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kan.
A pioneer of the civil rights movement, Clark will be forever remembered as the “doll man” for studies he and wife Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark, another prominent researcher, conducted on the psychological consequences of racial segregation on African American children.
Many of the children were being called mentally retarded by the state but Clark tested them and found they had IQs above then accepted levels for such claims. [2] She saw society's segregation as the cause for gang warfare, poverty, and low academic performance of minorities. [6]
The Clarks concluded that black children formed a racial identity by the age of three and attached negative traits to their own identity, which were perpetuated by segregation and prejudice.
2 mag 2005 · Educator and psychologist Kenneth Clark died Sunday in New York at age 90. Clark and his wife Mamie were the originators of the famous doll studies on the harmful effects of racism on black...
In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological effects of segregation on African-American children. Drs. Clark used four dolls, identical except for color, to test children’s racial perceptions.
