'Mamie Clark\r'

'Running head: MAMIE CLARK 1 Famous Person in psychology: Mamie Phipps Clark MAMIE CLARK 2 Famous Person in Psychology: Mamie Phipps Clark Mamie Phipps Clark was born in voluptuous Spring, Arkansas on April 18, 1917 to Dr. Harold and Katie Phipps.Due to her father having a practice in t suffer the family had achieved set class status and was allowed into umpteen establishments that were unremarkably whites only, which during that time in Arkansas was seldom heard of. Even though a few(prenominal) higher educational opportunities were open to foul students, after graduating from Langston High School in 1934, Mamie was offered several scholarships and chose to accept one from Howard University. (Cherry,2013) Mamie chose to orbit at Howard University because it was located in the nations capital of the United States and because of the many accomplished black members of its cogency whom she viewed as role models.She began her studies at Howard as a math study, minoring in ph ysics. thither she met her future husband, Kenneth B. Clark, who was studying for his victor’s in psychology. After not getting much encouragement from her professor’s in mathematics, Kenneth promote Mamie to change her major to psychology for employment possibilities and the chance to search her interest in children. (Cherry, 2013) When completing her master’s percentage point in 1939, she worked and study children in an all-black preschool.During that time she met with pyschologists, Ruth and component Harley who were studying self-identification in young children and encouraged Mamie to do the same with the children in the preschool. This resulted in her completed thesis â€Å"The Development of sense of Self in Negro Pre-School Children”. (Cherry,2013) MAMIE CLARK 3 Mamie transferred to Columbia University to finish her doctorate degree, where she graduated in 1943 as the second African American to earn a degree (first eing her husband, Kenne th Clark). Then Drs. Mamie and Kenneth Clark used their research with children to line of battle that black children became aware of their racial identicalness by the age of 3 and by segregating them from white children the children saw their race as negative. This guide the Clark’s to present their findings during integrating trials for the NAACPs case in Brown v. instrument panel of Education, which overturned racial segregation in earth schools in 1954. (Mamie Clark, 2013)After several historic period working in public and clandestine social services beingness uneasy with what she saw, Mamie founded the Northside Center for Child Development, the first mettle to provide therapy for children in Harlem. At a time when public schools were illegally enrolling many black children into programs for the mentally handicapped, the center conducted its own intelligence tests, fought the schools, and empowered the local population. Realizing that therapy alone could not a ddress the affects of racialism on the community, Northside also assisted families with their housing and financial difficulties.Mamie Clark worked for Northside until retirement in 1980 and died three long time later of cancer. (Mamie Clark, 2013) Using the Socio heathen expectation of psychology, it is easily confabulaten that Mamie Clark was influenced by social and cultural she experienced in her life. Growing up in Arkansas during the times where racism were very apparent and segregation was dominant, she was prospered enough to have been born into a middle class family. Mamie was able to see two sides of the segregation by being allowed into white establishments.This had a significant mend on her way of thinking, she wanted to both races to be seen equally and this eventually led to her involvement in the desegregation of public schools. MAMIE CLARK 4 References Mamie Clark, a Supporter of the forbidding Child. (2013). Retrieved on January 18, 2013 from http://www. aar egistry. org/historic_events/view/mamie-clark-supporter-black-child Cherry, Kendra. Mamie Phipps Clark Biography. (2013). Retrieved on January 18, 2013 from\r\n'