[1] Weiss early childhood was peaceful until Hitler took charge and her family had to leave their life of luxury in an attempt to avoid getting captured by the Nazis.
[1] The Weiss family managed to land in southern France undetected but then became refugees attempting to enter into the United States.
After graduating from Hunter High School, Clara Weiss enrolled in Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in philosophy and was introduced to psychology by Urie Bronfenbrenner.
After leaving Clark, she worked as a social psychology trainee at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Brockton, Massachusetts.
This study wanted to know why black parents were paying to bus their children to predominantly white Boston schools.