Toward Humanity and Justice: The Writings of Kenneth B. Clark, Scholar of the 1954 Brown V. Board of Education Decision (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275975098)

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Toward Humanity and Justice: The Writings of Kenneth B. Clark, Scholar of the 1954 Brown V. Board of Education Decision

$80.00

Toward Humanity and Justice: The Writings of Kenneth B. Clark, Scholar of the 1954 Brown V. Board of Education Decision

$80.00
Format: Hardcover
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This first collection of black psychologist Dr. Kenneth B. Clark's body of work over a half-century reveals his insight into the fields of social science, education, politics, and the law. He tells the inside story of the groundbreaking studies he made of black public school children-showing they lacked self-esteem because they were treated separately and differently than their white counterparts. His social science papers were the basis for the United States Supreme Court's landmark decision of May 17, 1954, that state-sponsored segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.

Dr. John Hope Franklin, the nation's most prestigious black historian, provides a Foreword. A number of prominent individuals in academics and politics offer brief commentaries about Dr. Clark, including Nobel Prize-winner Gunnar Myrdal, Dr. Cornel West, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Marian Wright Edelman, Roger Wilkins, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, and many others. There are also brief quotes about Dr. Clark by Congressmen Charles Rangel and John Lewis, and former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. In addition, the book contains Dr. Clark's views of his contemporaries, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter. This is an essential collection from a key figure often overlooked in studies of the Civil Rights Movement.

Author: Woody Klein
ISBN-10: 0275975096
ISBN-13: 9780275975098
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2004
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.14w x 1.17d

Review Citation(s):
Ebony 07/01/2004 pg. 30
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 720
By Woody Klein
By Woody Klein
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WOODY KLEIN, an award-winning author and journalist, has written about race relations since he was a newspaper reporter in the 1960s. He is the author of three previous books, Let in the Sun (1964), Lindsay's Promise (1970), and Westport, Connecticut. He has contributed numerous articles to magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times. He has been an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University and Fairfield University, and taught a course in civil rights and the media at The New School University.

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