Who conducted the classic 1944 report on Black America in which he declared, "The economic situation of the Negroes in America is pathological. Except for a small minority enjoying upper or middle class status, the masses of American Negroes . . . are destitute?"

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Gunnar Myrdal conducted the classic 1944 report on Black America titled "An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy" in which he declared, "The economic situation of the Negroes in America is pathological. Except for a small minority enjoying upper or middle class status, the masses of American Negroes . . . are destitute." Lee Rainwater, W. Lloyd Warner, and C. Wright Mills were all sociologists, but they did not conduct the specific report mentioned in the question.

Who Conducted the Classic 1944 Report on Black America in Which