The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty
by
Susan D. Greenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In 1965, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan—then a high-ranking official in the Department of Labor—sparked a firestorm when he released his report “The Negro Family,” which came to be regarded by both supporters and detractors as an indictment of African American culture. Blaming the...