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Reminiscences of Kenneth Bancroft Clark, 1985.

Creator: Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005
Project: Individual interviews oral history collection.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 774 pages Sound recording 16 reels
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Psychologist, educator; interviewee married Mamie Phipps Clark

Scope and Contents

Topics addressed in 1976 sessions include: Family background, childhood and education, Howard University, 1936, PhD, Columbia University, 1940; teaching career at City College; with wife Mamie, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People witness on psychological damage of racial segregation; founding of Northside Center for Child Development, 1946; political clashes involving Harlem Youth Opportunities; impressions of Adam Clayton Powell, Malcolm X; DARK GHETTO, 1965; establishment of Metropolitan Applied Research Center, 1967; federal and local education commissions; American Psychological Association, 1972, presidential address and aftermath. Additional topics addressed in the 1985 sessions include: civil rights and race relations during the Reagan era; South Africa and divestment; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and relations between Black and Jewish people; Conservatism in America; the passing of Mamie Clark; race in the workplace; the March on Washington, Black Muslim organizations, and the civil rights movement; "Data Black" opinion polls; New York Board of Regents and New York City Board of Education; and race and education

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Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1989

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