[Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders]

[Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders] 

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The file contains the summary of the “Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders” published in 1968 by the “National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders” on the so-called race riots that erupted during the summer 1967 in several cities in the United States. The report of the “National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders” or “Kerner Commission” after its chairman Otto Kerner jun., the Governor of Illinois, was set up by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 in order to investigate the reasons for the outbreak of the riots during the summer of 1967. The report focuses on the three questions set at its beginning: What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again? By analyzing the riots in Newark, Detroit, and New Brunswick, the Commission’s member stress out recommendations for national action in the fields of employment, education, the welfare system, and housing. 

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