Kenneth B. Clark
Age: 90
Summary: educator
and psychologist who spent his life working for racial integration and
improvement in the education of black children whose pioneering study
on the effects of racial discrimination was cited by the U.S. Supreme
Court in its historic 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which
declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional but who was the
first black professor to gain tenure at City University of New York and
was a former president of the American Psychological Assocation.
Cause of Death: Cancer
Born: July 24, 1914
Died: May 1, 2005
Location: Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
