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communityAlso in this section: A son of Panama’s West Indian community Renowned psychologist, civil rights activist Kenneth Clark dies in New York by Eric Jackson, from other media Kenneth B. Clark, a clinical psychologist whose work on the effects of racial segregation on the minds of children formed much of the evidence upon which the United States Supreme Court relied in its famous 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision, died May 1 at his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He was 90 years old. Born in the former Canal Zone, Clark moved to Harlem when he was five years old and grew up amidst the black cultural scene now known as The Harlem Renaissance. He received his undergraduate education at Howard University in Washington DC, then went on to be the first black man to earn a doctorate in psychology at Columbia University in New York. His pioneering study of how American children view themselves, as shown by their reactions to black and white dolls, became a powerful argument against racial segregation, and made Dr. Clark a star witness at a series of trials in which the NAACP Legal Defense Fund challenged racial segregation in public schools. Several of these cases wound up before the Supreme Court, and ended in the 1954 decision banning racially segregated public education. Clark, who served for 20 years as a member of New York state’s Board of Regents, which oversees public schools, said that he was surprised that the Brown v Board of Education decision did not in the end actually integrate American public education. Clark taught psychology at City College of New York, City University of New York, the University of California, Columbia and Harvard. He served as president of the American Psychological Association. In the Kennedy and Johnson administrations he served as a consultant to the US State Department to help formulate its personnel policies. His books include “Prejudice and Your Child” and “Dark Ghetto.” Although Dr. Clark left Panama at an early age and made his mark in the United States, his passing was noted in Panama. In part that’s because the long-standing ties between Panama’s Afro-Antillean community and those of its members who have emigrated to New York (and the descendents of such emigrants) made Clark’s work known to civil rights activists here. Calling him “the most outstanding psychologist in the United States,” Alberto Barrow of the Panamanian Committee Against Racism spread the word of Clark’s passing in Spanish-language emails, and the story was then picked up by some of this country’s daily newspapers.
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