Mamie Phipps Clark was born on April 18, 1917 in Hot Spring, Arkansas. Ms. Clark grew up knowing a professional lifestyle. His father Harold H. Phipps was an African American, who was a doctor and was more than capable of supporting his family of four rather easily. His mother, Katy Florence Phipps, was a housewife who was very involved in her husband's medical practice. Mamie had explained that being African American in the early 1930s and living in the South was not at all easy, even for the middle-class family she came from. “My father was a very respected black person, and it was a not-so-unusual phenomenon in the South, that even in highly segregated situations, there were some blacks who were allowed to cross certain lines. For example, going to certain stores and being served. Not restaurants, but shops with goods. My father was one of those people. We had some access to certain types of things, like merchandise stores, pharmacies, variety stores, that other people didn't have or that other people didn't take advantage of. You were always aware of which way you couldn't go and what you could do and what you couldn't do, so you knew there was a real chasm, actually, between the races. (The other half, 2009). Clark graduated from Langston High School at seventeen, and despite the extremely low opportunities available to black students, Mamie was offered several scholarships to pursue higher education. Among his scholarship opportunities were offers to two of the most respected and prestigious black universities in the country at that time. He had the opportunity to attend Fisk University which is located in Tennessee and another opportunity at Howard University which… midway through the paper… is working to fully alleviate even today. It is sad to know that children were subjected to such ignorance and that back then no one thought to do much to prevent this from happening. References Axelle Karera (2010) Psychology's Feminist Voices Retrieved from: http://www.feministvoices.com /mamie-phipps-clark/MacKay, J. (2010). Profile of Bonnie Strickland. In A. Rutherford (Ed.), Multimedia Internet Archive of Feminist Voices in Psychology. Retrieved from http://www.feministvoices.com/bonnie-strickland/Giving children security: Mamie Phipps Clark and the racialization of child psychology. Lal, Shafali, Yale U, American Studies Program Mamie Phipps Clark: The "Other Half" of Kenneth Clark's Legacy. Gibbons, William1Van Nort, Sydney C.2http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/kenneth_mamie_clark.html