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What I Will Create or Change
I will be editing Mamie Clark's Wikipedia page. I will first talk about is that she was middle class and that allowed her to do things that only white people could do, but she also had to go to racially segregated schools. These two things allowed her to see how society treated black people at an early age and that this contributed to her further research.

- She graduated high school at only 16 years old.

- The Wikipedia page mentions that Kennith Clark persuaded her to change her major, but it does not mention that she wanted to change her major before Kennith persuaded her because the mathematics and physics department were not supportive of her because of prejudice in women in those fields, especially African Americans. I will also mention that psychology appealed to her because she wanted to work with children.

- I will also mention that Francis C. Summer the head of the Psychology department at Howard was supportive of her being in the psychology department and that if he wasn’t she likely would not have wanted to be in the psychology program.Summer allowed her to work part-time in the psychology department where she expanded her knowledge about psychology.

- After Mamie Clark graduated she had a hard time being an African American, women psychologist in New York. She had a hard time getting a job; she lost job opportunities to less qualified white men and even white women. She was eventually able to get a job working for the American Public Health Association where she analyzed research data about nurses, which she hated.Luckily in 1945 she was able to get a better job working for the United States Armed Forces Institute as a research psychologist. But, as World War II ended they did not feel the need to employ her anymore and in 1946 she was jobless once again.

- They mention that she finally get a job that she likes at the Riverdale Home for Children, but they do not mention what she did. She conducted psychological test and counseled young homeless black people. While here she saw how insufficient psychological services were for minority children. Many of the children were called mentally retarded by the state and Mamie tested them and realized that they had IQ’s that was above mental retardation. This was a "kick start" to her life’s work and lead to her most significant contributions in the field of developmental psychology.

- This lead Mamie to open Northside Center for Child Development, which provided a homelike environment for poor black children. She provided pediatricians and psychological help among other things. The psychological work that they did led them to the discovery that the problems of minority children are psychosocial

-She saw society’s segregation as the cause for gang warfare, poverty, and low academic performance of minorities.

- The Wikipedia page goes into great detail about the doll experiment and how it influenced the end to segregation in schools, but they do not mention the coloring test which is also really important. So I will go into detail about the color experiment.I will also explain how these lead to the Supreme Court declaring that separate but equal in education was unconstitutional because it resulted in African American kids having “a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community." Also that this research paved the way for an increase in psychological research into areas of self-esteem and self-concept

Joebrummett300 (talk) 15:12, 2 April 2014 (UTC)