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Kerner Report reveals white racism as core cause of riots
In a five part series Judge Otto Kerner recounts the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders journey from denial to blunt admission that white racism underpins ghettos and unrest. He lists the diverse panel and notes the Washington session that crystallized the finding.
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Otto Kerner
National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders
Commission
America
Washington
Newark
Detroit
Lyndon B. Johnson
John V. Lindsay
New York City
U. S
Fred R. Harris
Oklahoma
Edward W. Brooke
Massachusetts
James C. Corman
California
William M. McCullough
Ohio
I. W. Abel
United Steelworkers of America
Charles B. Thornton
Litton Industries
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of the Colored People
Katherine Graham Peden
Commerce
Kentucky
Herbert Jenkins
Atlanta
David Ginsburg
Stokely Carmichael
Illinois
Brooke