The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, July 1st, 2005
"He went down to the solidly segregated South armed with conscience, courage, intellectual curiosity, a mind like a sharpened sword and two dolls, one black and one white."
Kenneth B. Clark, the educational psychologist whose experiments on the harmful emotional effects of racial segregation on black children were a key factor in persuading the Supreme Court to end racial segregation in the public schools, died this past May after a long battle with cancer. Dr. Clark, who was 90 years old, died at his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Beginning in the late 1930s Clark and his wife Mamie ...
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