He served on the Kerner Commission studying the explosive racial conditions of the United States in the 1960s, was shortlisted for a vice-presidential spot in 1968, briefly chaired the Democratic ...
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 ...
as he discusses the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission. | Russell Contreras/AP Harris was a member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, the so-called Kerner ...
Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma who later moved to New Mexico and became a professor at the University of ...