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The Moynihan Report and Research on the Black Community

I a New York Times obituary for Daniel Patrick Moynihan in March 2003, I was quoted as saying that the Moynihan Report is an important and prophetic document. I still stand by that statement. The report is important because it continues to be a reference for studies on the black family and low-skilled black males. It was prophetic because Moynihan’s predictions about the fragmentation of the African American family and its connection to inner-city poverty were largely borne out, and since 1990, social scientists and civil rights leaders have echoed his concerns about black male joblessness. Yet, it is often said that there was nothing new in the report. After all, people such as Bayard Rustin, E. Franklin Frazier, and Kenneth B. Clark had previously presented arguments highlighted by Moynihan. Like Frazier (1939), Moynihan argued that the problems of the black family, which present many obstacles to black equality, derive from previous patterns of inequality that originated in the experience of The Moynihan Report and Research on the Black Community