The Negro Family and the Moynihan Report

The culmination of intensive efforts to codify the life of the hapless is a document published by the Department of Labor entitled The Negro Family: The Case for National Action and commonly referred to as “The Moynihan Report,” after the reputed head of the investigation—the sociologist Daniel Moynihan. With the publication of this document a sociological theory which borders on an ideology has become a political weapon which we are all obliged to examine. In order to understan...