Kenneth B. Clark's Life And Work

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Kenneth B. Clark was born in Panama Canal Zone, Panama on July 14, 1914. He was an African American psychologist who focused on race religions, but also on other racial issues. Clark and his wife founded Northside Center for Child Development where they helped African American children in Harlem who were in poverty, but needed psychological assistance. He was well known for being the first African American professor at City College of New York, first African American to be on the State Board of Regents, and the first African American to be the President of the American Psychological Association.
During Clark and his wife’s occupation at City College of New York, they also devoted time towards an experiment called the “doll test.” Essentially,

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