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Murder trial of a former police officer amber guyger. joshua brown was a key witness in the trial, a neighborhood of botham jean and guyger. police heard several gunshots and a silver sedan speeding out of the parking lot. they say he was ambushed. >> they say brown worked directly across the hall of jean. one of the controversial moments in this trial was a couple of hugs. one between the judge and guyger and jean's brother and guyger. >> you also saw the bailiff fixing her hair and it reminded me of the black doll test that we heard about many, many years ago. >> clark. >> yes. >> i thought ...

I personally understand lupita's journey growing up. choking up on air, my personal revelation led to an outpouring of online messages. so many others sharing that dark shame. it led me to wonder in 2014, with the prominence of women like michelle obama and beyonce, surely color and beauty must no longer be an issue. with the help of a sociologist and a group of five to eight year olds we took a new snapshot of the famous 1939 doll test. black kids presented with two dolls overwhelmingly preferred the white one. >> which do you think is the most beautiful? >> reporter: at first we're encourage...

Schools were entirely black. >> and it is interesting, jackie, because i started this by talking about the "brown" case, and particularly the part that was the kenneth clark dahl studies and the supreme court saying we have to integrate, and if we don't, we will end up with african-american children having a negative sense of themselves and black children picking white dolls, and we saw these studies replicated in a little film of " "girls like me" and we saw a replication of that. i want to look at that for a moment, and then come back. >> dr. kenneth clark conducted a doll test with black ch...

We asked him why in his test he said he wanted his skin to be light. >> because that's my favorite color, white. >> that's what he told me. i think there is more behind that. but that is so far what he has told me and every time i ask him, it is the same answer. >> everyone in my school are white. have different eyes. eye color. >> reporter: molly says marcus' doll test has started broader conversations on race with 14-year-old malik. he admitted he went through a phase where he thought it would be easier to be white. >> at my middle school, i would be called a cracker or the "n" word and that...

>> reporter: these are questions that we along with cnn soledad psychogists hired by cnn spent months investiting through tests, interviews with children, and their parents. but there are questions that have been asked for decades. the first study ignited controversy in the 1940s when kenneth and mamie clark pioneered studies in the effects of segregation in schools by asking african-american kids to choose between black and white dolls. the so-called doll test found black kids overwhelmingly preferred white over black. those results were the center of the landmark 1954 supreme court case brow...