Was the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board based too much on the psychological harm that segregation caused and not enough on the structural inequality that continues to this day?
“Behind the ears, and directly above the Mastoid Process, is located a brain organ by the name of Vitativeness.”
The work of a key group of psychologists initiated the largest program of psychological testing attempted to that date, but also provided powerful impetus for two movements: the call for immigration quotas and the sterilization of the feebleminded.
In September 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the podium at the American Psychological Association’s Annual Convention in Washington D.C. to deliver a speech challenging social scientists to actively work to end racism.