Abstract
This study probed the effects of Brown v. Board of Education on the growth of social psychology and psychology in general. Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark case that made segregation illegal and ended the "separate but equal,, doctrine in the United States, was the first case argued before the Supreme Court in which social scientists were used as expert witnesses. Kenneth B. Clark, psychologist, played a prominent role in the case by discussing the results of his famous doll studies, from which he infer-red that African-American children were developing negative self-images because of segregated schools and life. Several intervention -analyses, a citation analysis, and a review of both Psychology textbooks and popular scientific journals were used to explore the effects of the court decision psychology.
Bryant, William Howard McKinley (1995). Effects of Brown v. Board of Education on the growth of social psychology. Master's thesis, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /ETD -TAMU -1995 -THESIS -B79.