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Published March 04. 2021 6:11PM | Updated March 04. 2021 10:09PM By More than 70 years ago, a husband-and-wife team of psychologists conducted experiments about children’s attitudes toward race using dolls that were identical in every way except skin color. Kenneth and Mamie Clark said the tests showed that children of all races and skin colors assigned positive attributes to the white dolls. Connecticut legislators this week discussed these so-called “doll tests” from the 1940s in noting that too little has changed since the experiments were conducted. Sen. Marilyn Moore, a Bridgeport Democrat, said, indeed, a legislative staffer recently heard from a young woman whose employer admonished her to hide her braids under a hat. Moore and other legislators said the time was beyond ripe to push back against this long history of discrimination based on natural physical attributes such as hairstyles and, as such, passed the CROWN Act (Create a Respectful and Open Workplace

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