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
Educators; Psychologists; African Americans--Segregation; African Americans--Education; African American children; African Americans--Psychology; New York (N.Y.) Politics and government 1951-; Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005; Clark, Mamie Phipps; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Northside Center for Child Development; Metropolitan Applied Research Center; American Psychological Association
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1985
Physical Description
774 pages
Note (Biographical)
Psychologist, educator; interviewee married Mamie Phipps Clark
Note
Interviewed by Ed Edwin between February 4, 1976 and November 7, 1985
This interview is featured in Columbia University Libraries’ Notable New Yorkers website. Notable New Yorkers was a project of Columbia University Libraries Digital Program. The original website was developed by Columbia University Digital Knowledge V entures and published in 2006
