Carnegie Corporation of New York.

The Carnegie-Myrdal study of the Negro in America was a comprehensive investigation of African-American life commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as a guide for the Corporation's activities as well as for "broader reasons."

The Corporation hired Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish social scientist to organize and direct the project. He put together a team of African-American and white social scientists working in the field of race relations who prepared reports, also known as memoranda, on all aspects of life in the African-American community. These memoranda served as working documents to assist Myrdal in the preparation of his report, published as "An American Dilemma" (New York: Harper & Brother Publisher, 1944).

From the description of Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection, 1935-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122534191