that led to the dissolution of jim crow, feeling that too much attention was paid to the clark doll tests, rather than the lafargue clinic's clinical studies, saying " was not based on primitive insignificant dolls play, but on careful lifelike clinical studies by the lafargue clinic's group of black and white psychiatrists, psychologists, teachers and social workers". response from historians medical historian dennis doyle wrote favorably of the clinic, that it resulted from a "complex interaction" of community persons, harlem leaders, and progressive psychiatrists. doyle also lauded the clinic's ability to respond to both the social and medical needs of patients from troubled harlem neighborhoods. gabriel mendes, author of the most comprehensive book-length treatment of the clinic, noted that the system that wertham and his colleagues devised at lafargue built a framework for addressing social ills and that its work, and through its linkage of race and class to mental health issues, went further than any other mental institution at its time in addressing these issues. "the lafargue clinic," wrote mendes, "became a key site in the battle for the desegregation of american society."