Another important figure lost

by Prometheus 6
May 2, 2005 - 7:15pm.
on Race and Identity

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Educator Kenneth Clark and His Fight for Integration

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 children, cited in the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

Clark was a lifelong opponent of segregation in any form and died pessimistic that his vision of an integrated society would be achieved. Margot Adler has a remembrance.