Record ID:
35028635 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50038687
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19140724
  • Panama
Death:
  • 20050501
  • Hastings on Hudson (N.Y.)
Associated with:
  • United States
Occupations:
  • Psychologists Educators
Used for:
  • Clark, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Bancroft), 1914-2005
Notes:
  • 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)
  • His Christo, "The Gates" project for Central Park, 1982 t.p. (Kenneth B. Clark)
  • His Some factors influencing the remembering of prose material ... 1940.
  • NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for His Interview, 1970 June 14 (Clark, Kenneth, 1914-; Director, Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC), New York)
  • Wikipedia WWW site, May 4, 2005 (Kenneth Clark; b. 1914, Canal Zone; d. May 1, 2005, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.; African American psychologist)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)55679
  • abv00088064
  • 000000028794
  • (AuCNL)153026
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC SdMadT DLC IEN DHU-MS VJTL