ABSTRACT
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. The Negro family is not the source of the “tangle of pathology” which the report attributes to the Negro community. The Negro poor are distinguished from the middle class primarily by the fact that they are poor. The challenge to the Negro community is political. It remains to be seen whether we can make room for the poor to acquire social and economic power. In 1960, Dreger and Walter B. Miller published in the Psychological Bulletin a critical evaluation of the "Comparative Psychological Studies of Negroes and Whites in the United States," which was an examination of the relevant contributions in the field between 1943 and 1958.
