July 24th is Kenneth Bancroft Clark Day!!! "Kenneth Bancroft Clark was born on July 24, 1914 in the Panama Canal Zone. He was the first black president of the American Psychological Association. With his wife Mamie Phipps Clark, in 1946, he founded the Northside Center for Child Development and published a report that unmasked the psychological effects of school segregation and which was prominently cited in Brown v. Board of Education." Thank you Mr. Clark for all of your contributions and inspiration! Please click the link below and learn more about Kenneth Bancroft Clark. :-)
http://www.biography.com/people/kenneth-bancroft-clark-9249475
“Probably the most difficult value for me to live by, rather than to just verbalize, is that of maintaining a genuine and functional compassion for those human beings who do not share my values.” - Kenneth Bancroft Clark
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