The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement | Black Power Is Ineffective

The noted psychologist Kenneth Clark is most often remembered for his contribution to the NAACP brief that led to the historic 1954 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation. In the following address delivered in October 1967 before the convention of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Clark addresses the failed promises of the civil rights revolution— and the subsequent rise of black power. In his analysis, Clark concedes that black power does indeed exert a tremendous psychological boost to frustrated...

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