Word: clark
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Negro Psychologist Dr. Kenneth B. Clark attributes the Negro's disinterest in other Negroes to "ghetto pathology"−which includes an unwillingness to make personal sacrifices beyond those already required by Negro life itself. Only last year, members of Sigma Pi Phi, an exclusive Negro fraternal organization known as "the Boule," debated whether it would be legitimate to donate $5,000 to the N.A.A.C.P. The main argument against the proposal was that an important aspect of the Boule was to allow members to relax and escape continuous involvement with the problems of being a Negro. Those who argued...
...book Dark Ghetto, Dr. Clark describes how segregation, economic insecurity, and periodic unpleasant brushes with a white world that considers the Negro an inferior have led to some Negroes' having a complex and debilitating prejudice against themselves. The preoccupation of many Negroes with hair straighteners, skin bleaches and the like often illustrates this aspect of self-prejudice, just as a wholehearted attempt by other Negroes to emphasize their Negroid features and hair texture shows their pride in their "negritude" a word currently in fashion in Negro communities. "Many
Negroes live sporadically in a world of fantasy," says Dr. Clark. "In childhood the delusion is a simple one−the child may pretend that he is really white. When Negro children as young as three are shown white-and Negro-appearing dolls or asked to color pictures of children to look like themselves, many of them tend to reject the dark-skinned dolls as 'dirty' and 'bad' or to color the picture of themselves a light color or a bizarre shade like purple. But the fantasy is not complete, for when asked to identify which...
...cried one member of the Texas State Society of Washington, D.C., "this is just like a campaign down home with everybody out howdyin'." And out howdyin' the gladdest of all was the guest of honor, President Johnson's new Ambassador to Australia, Lawyer Edward Clark, 59, of Austin. Mr. Ed backslapped his way through the crowd of more than 1,100 Texans at the society's annual summer outing at Fort Hunt, Va., just outside the capital. He like to died of hunger before he finally made it over to sample the barbecue spread...
Died. Percy Hamilton Clark, 91, patriarch of the Philadelphia Main Line Clarks, uncle of Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark and father of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's exwife, Mary Todhunter Clark, himself a lawyer and former senior partner of Clark, Spahr, Eichman & Yardley; of a heart attack; in Villanova...