African American psychologist Dr. Kenneth B. Clark’s famous “doll test” was designed to gather social-science evidence of the effects of racial discrimination. That evidence would eventually be presented in the court case Brown v. Board of Education to argue that racial discrimination in public schools was a violation of the Constitution and psychologically harmful to African American children. Please review this 5-minute video segment re-enacting the doll test: Simple Justice 2: Social Science EvidenceLinks to an external site..
Q1. What did you learn from the Clark Doll experiment about the impact of racism on children’s development? Please use the text or a resource to support your thinking. (200 words min.)