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Educators: Mamie Phipps Clark

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Mamie and Kenneth's Doll Test

Mamie and kenneth helped usher in the wave of work that examined what contributed to racial prejudice. In 19 forty three, mamie graduated from columbia university with a phd. She was the first black woman to do so. Then in 19 54, the lawyers in the brownve education case asked kenneth to pen some statements that described their research and their ment for school integration. Some historians argue that the doll test research played a minor role in the grand scheme of the ruling but it was clearly influential. Traces of it are evident in the final opinion of the supreme court justices.

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