Central

Visiting Little Rock Central High School was an incredibly moving experience for me. After touring the school and learning about the struggles of the Little Rock 9, we went to the visitor center, built across the street. What I found particularly interesting was a section dedicated to psychologists Kennith and Amy Clark, who conducted an experiment using dolls, showing that segregation damaged school children. They gave young African American school children each a black and white doll, and asked them a series of questions. When they asked the children which doll was the "nice" doll, the children lifted the white one. When they asked which was the "dangerous" doll, the children chose the black doll. This experiment struck me because it is horrendous that African American children wanted to be more like white children, even though they treated them terribly. 

Jordan Greenberg, Park School