ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the issues here under three headings: "Equality," the problem of definition; “Negro Family Stability" and the problem of power; and "Metropolis" and the problem of context. According to some observers, the civil rights movement has pushed a new definition of "equality" to the fore of American politics. An unusual kind of perplexity and frustration seems to have settled recently over segments of the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement has forced us all to confront the fact that we must view not only the rural deltas of Mississippi but "the metropolitan area as a racial problem." The problem that is really basic not only to the well-being of Negro citizens but to the health and security of the body politic is that "many central cities of the great metropolitan areas of the United States are fast becoming lower-class, largely Negro slums.".
