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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...
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.
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.
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.
Psychologists Kenneth Bancroft Clark and his wife, Mamie Phipps Clark, designed the “Doll Study” as a test to measure the psychological effects of segregation on black children. The Clarks’ “Doll Study” became the first psychological research to be cited by the Supreme Court and was significant in the Court’s decision to end school segregation.
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]
2 mag 2005 · By Kenneth Bancroft Clark. Purchase. Facebook. Flipboard. Email. Kenneth Clark, whose studies on racial discrimination helped win 'Brown v. Board of Education,' died this weekend at...
