The event will take place on Friday, June 11, 2010, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m, 4th Floor Conference Room, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C.. It is a free public event, but RSVPs are requested, to usstudies@wilsoncenter.org.The American controversy over race, poverty, and welfare came to a head in 1965 when The Negro Family: The Case for National Action-the infamous "Moynihan Report"-became public. In his new book, award-winning historian James T. Patterson uses the report as a starting point for a penetrating examination of the debate that ensued and its impact on the struggle for civil rights.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Patterson on the Moynihan Report
The United States Studies Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars announces a book chat on Freedom is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America’s Struggle over Black Family Life from LBJ to Obama, by James T. Patterson, Ford Foundation Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University. The Center explains:
