"Our children are our most precious resource. They must be saved, and Northside Center must help to make them strong - so that they can help others."

Dr. Kenneth B. Clark

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"Dr. Kenneth B. Clark and the late Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark, whose pioneering studies on the effects of segregation on black children's self-esteem contributed to the historic Supreme Court decision concerning desegregation of the public schools, began their lifelong partnership when both were students at Howard University in the mid-1930s.
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Dr. Clark's contribution to the landmark Supreme Court Decision of 1954, which declared segregation of public schools unconstitutional, remains one of his outstanding achievements in a list of many. "