Kenneth B. Clark is one of America's towering figures of social science. He was the NAACP's psychological expert in Brown vs. Board of education, convincing the Supreme Court that segregation harmed the self-image of Black people. He later was the the principal actor in HARYOU, or Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited, a proto-type of youth organization during the 1960s. His book, Dark Ghetto called for immediate action to stem the pathology of the ghetto. But it also demanded social scientists become "involved observers" who "cannot escape the turbulence and conflict inherent in the struggle."

Dr. Clark was born in 1914 and lives in Hastings on the Hudson, New York.
For More information, see the Electric Library site on Dr. Clark
"only human beings who lack respect for self and others could permit slums and ghettoes to exist when they are correctable; could permit generation after generation of human beings to be destroyed by an indifferent and inefficient educational system; could permit a souless higher education and inner-city illiteracy; could permit pervasive cynical corruption in the heart of government; could permit art, literature, and media to become bound to commercial determinants, symbols of the hollowness and mockery of the human soul; could permit disease, death of the body and the soul in the midst of knowledge that it could heal; could assert the holiness of environmental conservation while human beings are wasted."
- Pathos of Power,1974
Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power Pathos of Power
Prejudice and Your Child The Negro American (co-edited with Talcott Parsons)

THE RACE TO PRISON

 

Kenneth Clark has
long been dedicated
to the fight against
injustice. He is surely
appalled at this figure.
Can you guess what it represents?

 

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