Edition: U.S. / Global  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Former Senator
From New York, Dies at 76  Published: March 27, 2003 (Page 3 of
4)  That concept won praise from the era's leading historian of
immigration, Harvard's Oscar Handlin, who called it a "point of
departure" in studies of immigrants. But in a foretaste of
academic criticism in years to come, he said their methodology
was sometimes "flimsy."  "The Negro Family: The Case for
National Action," a paper he wrote at the Labor Department early
in 1965, argued that despite the Johnson administration's
success in passing civil rights laws, statutes could not ensure
equality after three centuries of deprivation. He said the
disintegration of black families had reached a point of "social
pathology." He wrote: "The principal challenge of the next phase
of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of
results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social
peace in the United States for generations."  He cited black
unemployment, welfare and ille