Kenneth and Mamie Clark were African-American psychologists who, as a married couple, conducted important research on children. They founded the Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem, New York. They were also active in the Civil Rights Movement and Kenneth became the first Black president of the American Psychological Association.
Kenneth and Mamie were best known for their experiment using dolls to study children’s attitudes about race. Based on their findings, they were expert witnesses in one of the cases that precluded Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Their findings were then used influence the U.S. Supreme Court to rule public segregation as unconstitutional.
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