Clark, Kenneth Bancroft
1914-2005 · Contribution: 1939-1975
Education
First African American to earn a psychology PhD from Columbia University; first Black president of the American Psychological Association; co-developed the 'doll test' research cited in Brown v. Board of Education
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Clark helped put social-science evidence at the heart of the case that ended legal school segregation, then broke a series of firsts that opened American psychology to Black scholars.
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