Date/Time
11/19/2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Hastings Historical Society Observatory Cottage
407 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson
The Clark Legacy
Opening Reception:
2:00–4:00pm
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Our new exhibit, The Clark Legacy, covers two of our village’s most renowned residents – Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark and Dr. Kenneth Bancroft Clark. This couple moved to the Pinecrest neighborhood of Hastings in 1950 and lived here until their deaths in 1983 and 2005, respectively. Both were civil rights activists and pioneering psychologists who are best known for their “doll tests” that showed the negative impact of segregation on Black children’s self-esteem. Their test results were influential in the groundbreaking 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that desegregated U.S. public schools.
The Clark Legacy provides an in-depth view of the Clarks’ lives and accomplishments, covering how they met and married, with details of their doll study, as well as the couple’s academic achievements and profound impact on at-risk children. Other topics include the history of their integrated neighborhood in Hastings, the story of the Clarks’ houseguest, Minnijean Brown of the Little Rock Nine, who lived with them in the late 1950s, and the background of some of the Black luminaries who were friends and visitors to the Clarks’ home on Pinecrest Drive.
Hastings Village Arts Commission exhibit:
Portraits, They Are:
Them And Me.
Opening reception November 19th, 3-6pm
Hastings Village Hall, 7 Maple Avenue
Hastings-on-Hudson NY
November 15, 2023-January 30, 2024
Artist Madge Scott in front of her paintings. Learn more about Madge here >