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to the Negro’s position in American society. Attention must also be given to the
total American picture with particular emphasis on relations between the two races.
Finally, it must consider what changes are being or can be induced by education,
legislation, interracial efforts, concerted action by Negro groups, etc.
Mr. Keppel, who from the start had given me the benefit of his most
personal interest and advice, and who had followed the gradual
development of the approach, gave his approval to the practical plans. Needed
were a working staff, consisting of experts who could devote their whole
time to the project, and, in addition, the collaboration of other experts to
prepare research memoranda on special subjects. I was most fortunate in
securing the cooperation needed. The following staff members were
engaged, besides Richard Sterner: Ralph J. Bunche, Guy B. Johnson, Paul
H. Norgren, Dorothy S. Thomas, and Doxey A. Wilkerson. Norgren did
not join the staff until November 1, 1939. Mrs. Thomas left the study on
January 15, 1940, for another engagement. Outside the staff, the following
persons undertook various research tasks, namely: M. F. Ashley-Montagu,
Margaret Brenman, Sterling Brown, Barbara Burks, Allison Davis, J. G.
St. Clair Drake, Harold F. Dorn, G. James Fleming, Lyonel C. Florant,
E. Franklin Frazier, Herbert Goldhamer, Melville J. Herskovits, T.
Arnold Hill, Eugene L. Horowitz, Eleanor C. Isbell, Charles S. Johnson,
Guion G. Johnson, Dudley Kirk, Louise K. Kiser, Otto Klineberg, Ruth
Landes, Gunnar Lange, T. C. McCormick, Benjamin Malzberg, Gladys
Palmer, Arthur Raper, Ira DeA. Reid, Edward Shils, Bernhard J. Stern,
Louis Wirth, T. J. Woofter, Jr. There were the following assistants to
staff members and outside collaborators, who worked for various periods:
Berta Asch, Lloyd H. Bailer, Louis Boone, Frieda Brim, Vincent Brown,
William B. Bryant, Elwood C. Chisolm, Walter Chivers, Kenneth Clark,
Belle Cooper, Lenore Epstein, Edmonia Grant, Louis O. Harper, James
Healy, Mary C. Ingham, James E. Jackson, Jr., Wilhelmina Jackson,
Anne De B. Johnson, Louis W. Jones, Alan D. Kandel, Simon Marcson,
Felix E. Moore, Jr., Rose K. Nelson, Herbert R. Northrup, Edward N.
Palmer, Lemuel A. Penn, Glaucia B. Roberts, Arnold M. Rose, George
C. Stoney, Joseph Taylor, Benjamin Tepping, Harry J. Walker, Richard
B. Whitten, Milton Woll, Rowena Wyant, and Walter Wynne. Mrs.
Rowena Hadsell Saeger was the executive secretary of the study
throughout this stage.
During the summer of 1939 I prepared a detailed plan for the study.[1]
The work on the various research memoranda started gradually during
the summer and fall of 1939, and I remained in close touch with all my
collaborators. As I wanted to be able to corroborate, as far as possible,
information in the literary sources and in the research memoranda being
prepared for the study, by looking at interracial relations in various parts
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