What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous “Doll Test” and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World Tim Spofford

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1728248078
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1728248073
• Author(s): Tim Spofford

Dr. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. “Give me the doll you like to play with,” he said. “Give me the doll that is a nice doll.” The psychological experiment Kenneth developed with his wife, Mamie, designed to measure how segregation affected Black children’s perception of themselves and other Black people, was enlightening―and horrifying. Over and over again, the young children―some not yet five years old―selected the white doll as preferable, and the brown doll as “bad.” Some children even denied their race. “Yes,” said brown-skinned Joan W., age six, when questioned about her affection for the light-skinned doll. “I would like to be white.”

Table contents:

Part One: Coming of Age
One: The Doctor’s Daughter
Two: The Son of a Seamstress
Three: The Secret Wedding
Part Two: Dynamic Colleagues
Four: The Seed of a Legend
Five: Nesting in Harlem
Six: Starting in the Basement
Seven: The Naacp Comes Knocking
Eight: Jim Crow on Trial
Nine: A Taste of Victory
Part Three: The Struggle for Integration
Ten: Massive Resistance
Eleven: A David and Goliath Battle
Twelve: Jump-Starting Head Start
Thirteen: Black Power
Fourteen: Opening a Gateway to Harlem
Fifteen: Quiet Courage
Epilogue: Struggling On
Reading Group Guide
A Conversation with the Author
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Back Cover

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