Moynihan's report, titled "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action," became a key document of the War on Poverty.

The Negro Family in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939)

The Negro Family in Bahia, Brazil (1942)

The decision to create such a character was backed up by research in the US government study The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.

But it was with a report that year to President Johnson entitled "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" that he made his biggest policy splash.

Frazier, Edward Franklin (1931) The Negro Family in Chicago.

In 1965, his foremost work, "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action," identified the breakup of black families as a major impediment to black advancement.

His report, "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" (1965) is commonly referred to as the "Moynihan Report".

The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, known as the Moynihan Report (1965)

The Negro Family in Chicago.