David Elmo Cooper walks us through his step-by-step process for illustrating The Doll Test: Choosing Equality, which tells the story of the Clarks’ landmark research on racial bias and self-perception in Black children. He explains how historical research guided his visual decisions and how he skews perspective intentionally to echo the way Black history has often been distorted or overlooked. Through composition, angle, and sequence, he shows how illustration can carry both the emotional truth of a moment and the weight of its historical context.