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the office and, particularly, for the typing and checking of the manuscript,
she has helped us by statistical computations, by digging up sources in the
library, by checking statistical data and quotations, and in many other ways.
In the last, hectic stage of the study, from September through December,
1942, Caroline Baer Rose was a member of the little group of three who
had to carry on after Sterner and I departed for Sweden. She worked
unselfishly through all hours, including evenings and weekends, and
brought to the study her frank personality and broad background. She
assisted Mr. Rose in checking data and filling in gaps and was especially
helpful in doing these things on the economics part. She also wrote the
first draft of Chapter 44, Section 4, on “Recreation.”
Before making my final revision of the manuscript I have had the
invaluable help of having it read critically and carefully by two friends
who are at the same time outstanding social scientists with a great familiarity
with the problems treated in the book: Professors E. Franklin Frazier of
Howard University and Louis Wirth of the University of Chicago. They
have not spared any effort, and as a result I have had their criticisms and
suggestions often from page to page, referring to everything from the
syntax and the arrangement of chapters and appendices to fundamental
problems of approach and to conclusions. In my revision nearly every
point raised by them has caused omissions, additions, rearrangements,
clarifications or other alterations. Paul H. Norgren has read Appendix 6
and a first draft of Chapter 19. Gunnar Lange has read Chapters 10 to 12
and a first draft of Chapter 18. The final manuscript has benefited by their
criticism. Alva Myrdal has read various chapters; her criticism of Appendix
1 and Chapter 41 on Negro education has been particularly valuable.
The relation of the study to the Carnegie Corporation of New York
must be accounted for. The study has an unusual character as it was not
initiated by any individual scholar or academic institution but sponsored
by the Carnegie Corporation itself and, in a sense, carried out within the
Corporation. The general plan that a number of American experts should
be asked to collaborate by preparing research monographs while the director
himself should write a final report, was also developed by the Corporation.
All decisions on practical and financial matters have been taken on the
responsibility of the Corporation. The Trustees of the Corporation have
been most generous and prompt in appropriating necessary funds for the
study.
Mr. Keppel has had to keep in closer touch with the progress of the
work than is usual when a study is sponsored by an outside institution. No
conventional words of appreciation can express what his unfailing personal
interest in the project has meant in upholding the courage of the present
author throughout his tribulations. Charles Dollard, the Assistant to the
President of the Carnegie Corporation, has followed the work in all its
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