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Mamie Phipps Clark
Inducted 2025
Pioneer psychologist from Hot Springs whose landmark doll studies on racial identity were cited in the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Mamie Phipps Clark was a social psychologist who, along with her husband Kenneth Clark, focused on the development of self-consciousness in black preschool children. Clark was born and raised in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Clark received her post-secondary education at Howard University, and she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees there.