At the time, social science findings were rarely brought up in the nation’s highest court. Board of Education, demanding racial integration in American public schools. In 1954 the Supreme Court handed down its monumental decision on Brown v. He said, “the children in the north were more overtly emotionally rejecting”, whereas “the children in the south did not reject the inferior… in fact, they sort of accepted this as part of the realities in life that they were living.”
Dr Clark noted that the reactions of children living in the north were different than those living in the south. While the results were the same, the Clarks noted that the style of reaction differed by location. The Clarks were asked to repeat their experiment in Clarendon County, South Carolina, where one of the five cases combined into Brown v. When those boys and girls were then told “now show me the doll that’s most like you”, some became “emotionally upset at having to identify with the doll that they had rejected.” Some even stormed out of the room or refused to answer the question. As Kenneth Clark recalled in 1985, he would ask, “show me the doll that you like to play with… the doll that’s a nice doll… the doll that’s a bad doll.” The study found that the majority of African-American children from segregated schools rejected the black doll.
The child would be presented with white and black dolls. In their doll experiments, the Clark’s interviewed African-American children attending segregated schools in Washington DC, versus those in integrated schools in New York.
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