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The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, commonly known as the Moynihan Report, was a 1965 report on black poverty in the United States written by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American scholar serving as Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Lyndon B. Johnson and later to become a US Senator. Moynihan argued that the rise in black ...
The gap between the Negro and most other groups in American society is widening. The fundamental problem, in which this is most clearly the case, is that of family structure. The evidence — not final, but powerfully persuasive — is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling.
- Chapter I. The Negro American Revolution. The Negro American revolution is rightly regarded as the most important domestic event of the postwar period in the United States.
- Chapter II. The Negro American Family. At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family. It is the fundamental source of the weakness of the Negro community at the present time.
- Chapter III The Roots of the Problem. Slavery. The most perplexing question abut American slavery, which has never been altogether explained, and which indeed most Americans hardly know exists, has been stated by Nathan Glazer as follows: “Why was American slavery the most awful the world has ever known?”
- Chapter IV. The Tangle of Pathology. That the Negro American has survived at all is extraordinary — a lesser people might simply have died out, as indeed others have.
Feb 9, 2018 · Against the backdrop of President Johnson’s War on Poverty and the Watts riots in Los Angeles, a young civil servant with the OFFICE OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH at the Department of Labor, DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN, wrote in 1965 his most controversial study The Moynihan Report—The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.
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On New Year’s Eve, 1964, Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan assembled his staff in his office to announce that they were going to help him write a report on African American...
Jun 13, 2013 · In 1965, sociologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a controversial report that said the decline of the black nuclear family was a major part of black poverty.
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May 19, 2023 · The Negro Family: The Case For National Action (1965) by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
