1954
Nettie Hunt and her daughter Nickie sit on steps of the Supreme Court building on May 18, 1954, the day following the Court’s historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Nettie is holding a newspaper with the headline “High Court Bans Segregation in Public Schools.”
“After reviewing psychological studies showing black girls in segregated schools had low racial self-esteem, the Court concluded that separating children on the basis of race creates dangerous inferiority complexes that may adversely affect black children’s ability to learn. The Court concluded that, even if the tangible facilities were equal between the black and white schools, racial segregation in schools is “inherently unequal” and is thus always unconstitutional.”
Kenneth Clark (1914-2005) and Mamie Phipps Clark were African American psychologists working in New York City whose research was cited in the Brown Versus Board of Education lawsuit.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html
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