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What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous ‘Doll Test’ and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World

by Tim Spofford

What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous 'Doll Test' and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World

One day in 1940, young Dr. Kenneth Clark walked into a Harlem Woolworth’s store and bought four baby dolls: two brown, two white, but otherwise the same. They weren’t for the baby that he and his wife, Mamie, were expecting – but for their new psychology experiment in racial identity.