Analyze how the specific findings from the research conducted by Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth Clark could be used to support the legal argument described in the case study below.

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The Clarks are famous African American researchers and psychologists, best known for their studies conducted on African American children and doll preference, research that was instrumental in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court desegregation case. They also applied their research to social services and opened the first child guidance center in Harlem.

Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth Clark

Analyze the connection between the psychological findings of Mamie and Kenneth Clark's doll studies and the legal arguments that were successful in the U.S. Supreme Court case concerning school segregation. In your answer, explain what the studies demonstrated and why this evidence was so persuasive in a legal context.

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