1940s-1970s Black American Life (PICS)

[cole phelps]

1947 NEGRO DOLL RACE CHILD PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENT PHOTO
This photograph shows a child participant in Dr. Kenneth B. Clark's 1947 "doll" test; an experiment in which children were given a choice of black dolls and white dolls. The majority of Black children chose to play with white dolls and identified the Black dolls as "bad." Clark's testimony in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education was pivotal in the Supreme Court's determination that segregation was damaging to the hearts and minds of Black children.

 

[flo]

Crazy that she's someone's grandma now

She's dead now

 

[Regine Hunter]

The one with MARVIN would be ILL on a blank tee shirt

someone make this happen. I'd drop so much money...

 

[marcuz]

1947 NEGRO DOLL RACE CHILD PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENT PHOTO
This photograph shows a child participant in Dr. Kenneth B. Clark's 1947 "doll" test; an experiment in which children were given a choice of black dolls and white dolls. The majority of Black children chose to play with white dolls and identified the Black dolls as "bad." Clark's testimony in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education was pivotal in the Supreme Court's determination that segregation was damaging to the hearts and minds of Black children.

man, i disagree with his thesis. they've done doll test within the last 10 yrs and it still yields the same result. if anything, living around white folks and immersing ourselves in their media has damaged our self esteem more so.

 

[Regine Hunter]

The Temptations, 1970.
The work these nikkas would've gotten

 

[RAX 010]

bravo

 

[RAX 010]

FANTASTIC images. How in the hell did we as a people fall off so gotdamn hard??

lack of education.....such as history...

 

[cole phelps]

 

[kp404]

lack of education.....such as history...

Yea that's all that happened huh

 

[cole phelps]

 

[#1 pick]

We knew what we were, we weren't confused like we are today.

 

[RAX 010]

Yea that's all that happened huh

not just that

 

[loyola llothta]

A lesser known scene from the World War II American homefront: 1943 civil rights march near 11th Street and Vermont Avenue NW protesting police brutality and MPD discriminatory hiring practices.

Photos from the Historical Image Collection, DC Public Library Special Collections

 

[cole phelps]

 

[cole phelps]