The Negro American / edited and with introductions by Talcott Parsons and Kenneth B. Clark, and with a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson ; illustrated with a 32 page portfolio of photos by Bruce Davidson, selected and introduced by Arthur D. Trottenberg.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Introduction : The dilemma of power / Kenneth B. Clark -- Introduction : Why "freedom now," not yesterday? / Talcott Parsons -- The social and economic status of the Negro in the United States / St. Clair Drake-- The two worlds of race : a historical view / John Hope Franklin -- Demographic factors in the integration of the Negro / Philip M. Hauser -- An economic and social profile of the Negro American / Rashi Fein -- Employment, income, and the ordeal of the Negro family / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- Crucible of identity : the Negro lower-class family / Lee Rainwater -- Negro fertility and family size preferences : implications for programing of health and social services / Adelaide Cromwell Hill and Frederick S. Jaffe -- The concept of identity in race relations / Erik H. Erikson -- It's the same, but it's different / Robert Coles -- Community and class realities : the ordeal of change / G. Franklin Edwards -- White attitudes towards the Negro / Paul B. Sheatsley -- Complexity and change in American racial patterns : a social psychological view / Thomas F. Pettigrew -- The civil rights movement and the frontiers of law / Paul A. Freund -- The federal executive and civil rights, 1961-1965 / Harold C. Fleming -- American religion and the Negro / Joseph H. Fichter -- The Negro in politics / James Q. Wilson -- On improving the economic status of the Negro / James Tobin -- Barriers to northern school desegregation / Robert A. Dentler -- Race and reconciliation : the role of the school / John H. Fischer -- The housing problem and the Negro / Charles Abrams -- Equality and beyond : housing segregation in the Great Society / Eunice and George Crier -- The Negro businessman : in search of a tradition / Eugene P. Foley -- The civil rights movement : momentum and organization / Kenneth B. Clark -- The American dilemma in a changing world : the rise of Africa and the Negro in America / Rupert Emerson and Martin Kilson -- The goals of integration / Oscar Handlin -- Who has the revolution or thoughts on the second reconstruction / John B. Turner and Whitney M. Young, Jr. -- Anomalies and projections / Everett C. Hughes -- Full citizenship for the Negro American? : a sociological problem / Talcott Parsons.

Most of the essays, some in slightly different form, appeared originally in the Fall 1965 and Winter 1966 issues of Daedalus.