Negro Family: The Case for National Action

by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Policy Planning and Research

This book discusses the problems of the Negro American and the Negro family structure, and particularly the problems confronting the nation in the effort to establish a stable Negro family structure.

Genres: Race, Sociology, History, Social Science, Politics

78 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1965

About the author

Daniel Patrick “Pat” Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was the United States' ambassador to the United Nations and to India, and was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, and continuing through Gerald Ford.

Reviews

[Mark Fuller · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an eye reopening report. Even though the report was originally published in 1965, little seems to have changed. The challenge is to collate the findings in 1965 with statistics today. We look for simple answers, but this report shows that this is complicated and its been easier to ignore than to resolve.

[RK Byers · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don’t get it. were people so offended because Moynihan was effectively spot-on?

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic!

[Fred Walker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Heavy on the stats but you can't argue with the numbers.