because she has light skin. show me the good child. this one. why is he the good child? he looks good. show me the child who has the skin color most children don t like. pretty striking stuff. this is all part of a pilot study that we commissioned designed, and the results analyzed by a renowned child researcher. she s with us in the audience tonight. she s a leader in the field. she ll be joining the discussion a little bit later. spencer s team tested 130 kids in eight different schools, half in the north, half in the south. now, the schools had very specific and very different racial and economic demographics. there were two different ages of kids tested. 4 and 5-year-olds and 9 and 10-year-olds. and two races, african-american and white. now, this was first done in a series, a very famous doll test from the 1940s. two psychologists named kenneth and maime clark pioneered a study in schools by asking african-american kids to choose
and maime clark pioneered a study in schools by asking african-american kids to choose between black and white dolls. what s interesting is they found the majority of black kids preferred to play with white dolls, and that the kids considered white, the nice color, but that the black doll looked bad. so those results were the center of a landmark 1954 supreme court case, which you ve all heard about, brown versus the board of education which deseg gri gated america s schools. nearly 60 years after desegregation, we want to know has anything really changed. how do kids see race today. how do your kids see race. unlike the original study that only tested black kids, we tested black and white kids, we re going to show you the results in a moment. but first, we want to introduce our panel. donna brazille is here. donna, welcome. good to see you. thank you. have a seat. also joining us is the author of