AMERICA'S EQUALITY PROMISE: WHERE DO WE GO
FROM HERE?
America in Black
and White: One Nation, Indivisible. By Stephan and Abigail
Thernstrom. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 704 pp. Tables, notes, and
index. $32.50.
Late in the summer of 1937, Frederick P. Keppel, on behalf of the Trustees
of the Carnegie Corporation, invited Dr. Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish social
economist, to direct a comprehensive study of the Negro in the United
States, "determining the social, political, educational, and economic
status as well as defining opinions held by different groups of Negroes
and whites as to his 'right' status."
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