Kenneth and Mamie Clark's doll test. The husband-and-wife team studied the self-image of Black children, and their psychological experiments performed in the 40s found African American children ...

It is part of American lore on race and progress: In the 1940s, Kenneth and Mamie Clark set out to study the psychological effects of segregation on Black children. The psychologists conducted a ...

In the 1940s, two Black psychologists, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, conducted a study on the development of self-esteem in Black children. The Clarks utilized dolls that were Black or white to test ho ...

But there is pain, here, too. In the 1940s, Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark famously conducted an experiment with Black children and dolls to underscore the damage to self-image wrought by ...