Session 1, February 4, 1976

Childhood Learning Experiences in Panama and New York City 1–11

Relationship with Parents 12–20

Educational and Racial Experiences 21–27

   Awareness of race 21–22

Home and Church Life in New York City 28–32

Mother's Involvement with Race Issues 33–37

Historical and Psychological Differences Between West Indian Blacks and American–Born Blacks 38–41

Experiences While Traveling in Jamaica and South Africa 42–50

Undergraduate and Master's Degrees at Howard University 51–58

   Professor Francis Sumner 52–55
   Effect of race on choice of specialization 56
   Master's thesis 57–58


Session 2, February 23, 1976

Howard University (1932–35) 59–83

   Decision to go / black teachers 60–61
   Medical–student mentors 62–64
   Contrast with high school 66–67
   Professors 68–69
   Psychology major 70–71
   Courtship of Mamie Phipps 72–73
   Arrest for protesting racial injustice 74–78
   Editor of school paper 79–81
   Segregation in the South 82–83

Communist Party and Blacks 84–86

Columbia University 87–92

   Mamie Clark's Columbia work 91

Howard University (cont) 93–96

   German class 93–94, 82
   Psychology faculty 95–96

Marriage 97

Columbia University Ph.D. in Social Psychology 98–104

   Social psychology 99–100
   Freudianism 101–2
   Other universities 103–4

Aptitude Testing / Environmentalism 105–8


Session 3, March 19, 1976

Brown v. Board of Education 109–16

   City College 109–10, 114–15
   Impact of race on development 111–13
   Social role of academia 116

City College 117–23

   Colleagues 117–19
   Students / race issue 120–21
   Coursework / research 122–23

Northside Center for Child Development 124–42

   Conflicting psychiatric approaches 132–35
   Differences in psychiatric treatment according to race and class of patients 136–37
   Historical context of Northside 138–40


Session 4, April 7, 1976

Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited (HARYOU) 144–55

"Youth in the Ghetto: A Study of the Consequences of Powerlessness" (study; basis for book Dark Ghetto) 156–65

   Malcolm X 158–59
   Adam Clayton Powell 160–63
   J. Raymond Jones 164–65


Session 5, May 10, 1976

Adam Clayton Powell and HARYOU/ACT 166–91

Dispute About Psychiatry at Northside Center 192–97

Adam Clayton Powell's Personality 198–203

Powell and HARYOU/ACT (cont) 204–9

Malcolm X 210–13



Session 6, July 7, 1976

Personal Rebellion Against Doctrinism 214–22

   Malcolm X 223–25
   Patrice Lumumba 226–28

Dark Ghetto 229–31

Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC) 232

Adam Powell; Muhammad Ali, Others as "Burlesque" 233–34

MARC (contd) 235–37

Disputes with Albert Shanker and NYC Teacher's Union 238–42

New York State Board of Regents 243–52

Racial issues 245
   Teacher selection/evaluation 246–49
   Decentralization 250–52


Session 7, July 20, 1976

Social Dynamics Research Center at City College 253–59

Founding of MARC 260–66

   Field Foundation funding 260–63
   City College and MARC 264–66

Conflicts on/with Board of Education 267–70

   Retirement from City College 267–68

Relationships with Foundations 271–277

Herter Commission 278–80, 287–93

Race and Societal Inertia 281–86

   Martin Luther King Jr. 282–85

Work with Other Organizations 294–99

   Urban Development Corporation 294
   National Child Labor Commission 295–97
   National Scholarship Service 298
   Educational institutions 299

Dark Ghetto 300–2

American Psychological Association (APA) Presidency 303–9


Session 8, August 3, 1976

"The Group" 310–34

   Ben Dyett's leadership 310–15
   Expansion of group as Hundred Black Men 316–21
   Importance of 322–24
   Political power and racism 325–30
   The Group and New York mayors 331–34

Thoughts on Being Interviewed 335–36

Secrecy About the Group 337

Classifying Terms for Race 338–40

APA Presidential Address, "Pathos of Power" 341–56


Session 9, September 9, 1976

Term as President of APA 357–85

   Psychology and social justice 359–61
   Work to further social responsibility of psychology through APA 368–71
   Family's reaction to "Pathos of Power" speech 372–75
   Ideals of social responsibility 376–78
   Intelligence and moral sensitivity 379–81
   Other responses to "Pathos of Power" speech 382–85

Race and Perceived Expectations in Career 386–90

   At Columbia University 387–88
   At City College 389
   At Queen's College 390

Interactions with John F. and Robert F. Kennedy 391–92

Gunnar Myrdal 393–96

Discussion of Oral–History Experience 397–401

Clark, Phipps, and Harris, Inc. 401–3

Discussion of Other Possible Interviewees 404–7


Session 10, April 4, 1985

Civil Rights under the Reagan Administration 408–38

Visit to South Africa; Civil Rights and Disinvestment 439–58

Israeli–Palestinian Conflict; PLO and Black Americans 459–65

Anti–Semitism Among Black Leadership 466–75

Conservatism in America 476–88

   Deterioration of black family life 479–82
   Daniel P. Moynihan 483–85
   NAACP leadership 486
   Paul Robeson 487–88

Death of Dr. Mamie Clark 489–90


Session 11, May 10, 1985

Dr. Mamie Clark 491–99

   Illness and death, 1983 497
   Feelings on race and gender 499–504

Race in the Workplace 510–21

   March on Washington516–21

Black Muslim Organizations 522–25

   Malcolm X 524–25

Civil–Rights Movement and Leaders 526–67


Session 12, May 29, 1985

Educational Issues After Brown 568–639

   Board of Regents 568–84
   Racial issues in schools585–93
   Clark family's education experiences 594–99
   Possible educational Improvements 600–605
   Board of Regents' independence from New York Politics 606–16
   New York City Board of Education 617–21
   Parochial vs. public 622–25
   Educational testing 626–29
   "Black English" used for education 631–34
   Huckleberry Finn 635–39


Session 13, June 28, 1985

Conservatism, Race, and Entrepreneurship 640–46

Black Community Role Models 655–68

Reagan Administration and Race 669–80

Black "Double Consciousness" 681–85

Black–Jewish Relations 686–91

Establishing "Data Black" Public Opinion Polls 692–99

Interaction among Ethnic Groups 700–703


Session 14, November 7, 1985

Hilton Clark's Election to New York City Council 704–13

Racial Aspects of 1985 Elections (Local and State) 714–17

Race in the Reagan Era 718–35

   Affirmative action 718–19
   Race and education Bradley v. Robb (school desegregation case in Va.) 721–25
   Race and education 726–28
   Small Business Administration 729–35

Malcolm X 736–38

The Negro Protest: James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Talk with Kenneth B. Clark 739–40

Joint Center for Political Studies (Washington, D.C.) 741–43

Data Black 744–45

Leaders, Hostility, and Psychopharmacology 746–50
Gunnar Myrdal's The American Dilemma 751–54

South Africa and Divestment 755–59

Word Racist 760–63