The Myrdal study commissioned in 1937 received unlimited resources and freedom

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Even for the United States, often thought of as an unconventional country, it was an independent and courageous initiative when in 1937 the Swede, Gunnar Myrdal, was commissioned to carry out an analysis of the `black problem’ in the USA, and given every freedom and virtually unlimited resources to do so. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1476