Toward Humanity and Justice — The Writings of Kenneth B. Clark, Scholar of the Brown V. Board of Education Decision

This first collection of black psychologist Dr. Kenneth B. Clark's body of work over a half-century reveals his insight into the fields of social science, education, politics, and the law. He tells the inside story of the groundbreaking studies he made of black public school children-showing they lacked self-esteem because they were treated separately and differently than their white counterparts. His social science papers were the basis for the United States Supreme Court's landmark decision of May 17, 1954, that state-sponsored segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.

WOODY KLEIN, an award-winning author and journalist, has written about race relations since he was a newspaper reporter in the 1960s. He is the author of three previous books, Let in the Sun (1964), Lindsay's Promise (1970), and Westport, Connecticut. He has contributed numerous articles to magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times. He has been an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University and Fairfield University, and taught a course in civil rights and the media at The New School University.