February 17, 1958

Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine, moved to New York and lived with Drs. Kenneth B. and Mamie Clark after being suspended and then expelled in 1958 for retaliating against the daily torment she experienced at Central High School. The Clarks were African-American psychologists whose social science research formed the basis for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) argument in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas cases, which held that segregation harmed the self-esteem of African-American children.