President Lyndon B. Johnson formed the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, better known as the Kerner Commission, in 1967 after riots broke out in Detroit and other U.S. cities. The ...
1968 was a year filled with conflict and transformation. The Kerner Commission report shattered dreams of a unified society. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were silenced by ...
Context clues: In 1968, the Kerner Commission report highlighted failings of the American media in covering the fight for racial equity. Gilliam, one of two Black graduates in the Columbia ...
A month before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, a report was released by the Kerner Commission, established by President Lyndon Johnson to examine the causes of and solutions to ...