Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005

LC control no.	n 50038687
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Clark, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Bancroft), 1914-2005
Associated country	United States
Associated place	New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1914-07-24
Death date	2005-05-01
Place of birth	Panama
Place of death	Hastings on Hudson (N.Y.)
Affiliation	Metropolitan Applied Research Center Howard University Columbia University City University of New York. City College HARYOU (Organization) American Psychological Association Northside Center for Child Development
Profession or occupation	Psychologists Educators
Found in	His Some factors influencing the remembering of prose material ... 1940. His Christo, "The Gates" project for Central Park, 1982: t.p. (Kenneth B. Clark) Wikipedia WWW site, May 4, 2005 (Kenneth Clark; b. 1914, Canal Zone; d. May 1, 2005, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.; African American psychologist) NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for His Interview, 1970 June 14 (Clark, Kenneth, 1914-; Director, Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC), New York) African American National Biography, accessed December 29, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Clark, Kenneth Bancroft; psychologist, educator, community activist; born 24 July 1914 in Panama; MS degree from Howard University; PhD in Psychology at Columbia University (1940), the first PhD awarded to an African American at Columbia; became the first black instructor appointed to the faculty of the City College of New York; together with his wife established the Northside Center for Child Development, known for "the doll test" included in the four cases consolidated in Brown v. Board of Education; appeared in Commentary and other liberal journals; looked more deeply in the problems of racisms in the public television series, The Negro and the Promise of American Life; founded Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU); his most widely read book is Dark Ghetto (1965); awarded the Spingarn Medal (1961); served as the first black president of the American Psychological Association and received that organization's Gold Medal Award; died 1 May 2005 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)