The young Kenneth Clark (1914-2005) was inspired by the first African American psychologist, Francis Cecil Sumner (1895-1954), to pursue a career in psychology, and he completed both his bachelor’s ...

Back in the 1940s, Kenneth and Mamie Clark – a husband-and-wife team of psychology researchers – used dolls to investigate how young Black children viewed their racial identities. They found that ...

HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- It was the psychological study that shaped a generation: Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark's doll test. The husband-and-wife team studied the self-image of Black children, and ...

A version of this story originally ran on Feb. 1, 2019, as part of our Black History Month Series. This year, because of how this subject played in the psyche and mental health of Black children, we ...