Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005

found: His Christo, "The Gates" project for Central Park, 1982:t.p. (Kenneth B. Clark)

found: Wikipedia WWW site, May 4, 2005(Kenneth Clark; b. 1914, Canal Zone; d. May 1, 2005, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.; African American psychologist)

found: NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for His Interview, 1970 June 14(Clark, Kenneth, 1914-; Director, Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC), New York)

found: 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)