Kenneth Bancroft Clark was a psychologists, an educator and a professor at City College of New York, and first black president of the American Psychological Association.
In team with his wife Mamie Phipps Clark he conducted important research among children and was active in the Civil Rights Movement. Together they founded the Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem and the organization Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU).
Let this one marinate for a bit. Clark approaches his research with understandable passion in the midst of what to many was a generational trial: bringing awareness to how future of what segregated education will look in practice, or, more appropriately, the toll it will take. With nearly every claim supported ten times over, albeit almost too casually at times (the novel was derived from an institutional presentation), the central thesis is sound, and has only been honed over the last half century.