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HISTORIES Northside Center for Child Development The social scientists Kenneth and Mamie Clark were perhaps the most consistent, articulate, and effective northern advocates of racial integration. Their research was pivotal in the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. As child welfare advocates, they also understood first-hand the social and psychological consequences of institutionalized racism, and after the Second World War, they founded the Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem to help meet these challenges. A history of the Northside Center as well as an intellectual biography of the Clarks, Winthrop’s Children, Race, and Power (Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner), published by University Press of Virginia, traces the Center’s involvement in every aspect of the civil rights movement. Addressed to policy-makers, social workers, educators, and mental-health professionals, the book also contrasts the Clarks’ vision for the Northside Center with the severe constraints under which it operates, exposing the profound inequality of social and material resources available to children in Harlem and other urban communities.