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(1944) [MARC] Author: Gunnar Myrdal
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of the country with my own eyes, I continued to reserve as much of my
time as possible for work in the field.

After the Germans had invaded Denmark and Norway in April, 1940,
Mr. Keppel and I agreed that my duty was to go home to Sweden. Samuel
A. Stouffer—who, meanwhile, had undertaken the responsibilities on the
staff which Mrs. Thomas had left—agreed to take upon himself the burden
of directing the project in my absence. Without reserve, he unselfishly
devoted all his talents and all his energy to the task of bringing the research
to completion by September 1, 1940, and he succeeded. I shall always
remain in deep gratitude to Stouffer for what he did during those months
and for the moral support he thereafter has unfailingly given me and the
project.

Because of the delay in the completion of the work—and, indeed, the
uncertainty as to whether I would ever be able to return to the task of
writing a final report—the Corporation decided, in the fall of 1940, to
facilitate the publication of some of the memoranda. A Committee to advise
in the selection of those contributions most nearly ready for publication
was appointed, consisting of Donald R. Young, Chairman, Shelby M.
Harrison and William F. Ogburn. Samuel A. Stouffer served as Secretary
to this committee. The following volumes have been published:

Melville J. Herskovits, The Myth of the Negro Past. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1941.

Charles S. Johnson, Patterns of Negro Segregation. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1943.

Richard Sterner, The Negro’s Share. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943.

A fourth volume is to be published later:

Otto Klineberg, editor, Characteristics of the American Negro. New York: Harper &
Brothers.

This volume contains the following research memoranda, the manuscripts
of which will be deposited in the Schomburg Collection of the New York
Public Library.

Otto Klineberg, “Tests of Negro Intelligence,” “Experimental Studies of Negro
Personality.”

Benjamin Malzberg, “Mental Disease among American Negroes: A Statistical
Analysis.”

Louis Wirth and Herbert Goldhamer, “The Hybrid and the Problem of
Miscegenation.”

Eugene L. Horowitz, “‘Race’ Attitudes.”

Guy Johnson, “The Stereotypes of the American Negro.”

The following unpublished manuscripts, prepared for the study—after
some provision has been made to preserve the authors’ rights—are being

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