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DIED. Gunnar Myrdal, 88, combative Nobel-prizewinning Swedish social economist whose 1944 report, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, a landmark study of U.S. race relations, was cited by the Supreme Court in its landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision (1954) that separate schools for blacks are unconstitutional; in Stockholm. In 1968 his massive ten-year study, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, maintained that land reform would wipe out Third World poverty. Myrdal was awarded a Nobel medal for economics in 1974. He and his wife Alva, who died in 1986, four...
...unofficial study that has not been released, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) found that a "small increase in tuition proportionally causes a drop in low income--minority student enrollment," says UNCF Vice President Alan H. Kirschner...
...announced ambitions for a cycle of ten plays meant to reveal black life in each decade of this century. Ma Rainey depicted the self- imposed racial isolation of a 1920s blues singer. His second play to reach Broadway, Fences, which opened last week, portrays the frustration of a former Negro-leagues baseball player in the industrial North of the 1950s, a boom time that is passing this man by. Too old to make the move to the majors, too much a country boy to seek an education and get ahead, too embittered to believe in the hope the civil rights...
After three decades as an architect of social policy, the erudite and garrulous Senator with an impish face and patrician accent has attained a reputation for prescience. Back in 1965, when he was serving as an Assistant Secretary of Labor, he wrote a report, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, that provoked a searing controversy. Using the work of Black Sociologists Kenneth Clark and E. Franklin Frazier, Moynihan contended that the growing number of one-parent families living on welfare was preventing blacks from achieving true equality in American society. If the trend did not stop, he charged...
...become a major political spokesman like Dubois or Washington--instead he directed his energies toward developing a Black cultural and artistic identity. Regarded as an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Locke felt that Black art, music and literature were evidence that "Negro thoughts now wear the uniform...