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Clark, Mamie Phipps

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Clark, Mamie Phipps (1917–1983)

US psychologist. Together with her husband, Kenneth B Clark, she made the first, now classic, studies of personality development in black children (1939–50), studies cited by the US Supreme Court in the landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed segregation throughout the USA.

She was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and attended Howard University. She married psychologist Kenneth B Clark (1938) and in 1946 they founded the Northside Center for Child Development in New York City. She served as associate director there for 33 years.



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