Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil DisordersReferred to as the Kerner Commission Report. |
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... FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND CIVIL DISORDERS Major Fire Department Problems in Civil Disorders Recommendations for Improving Fire Department Response III . STATE RESPONSE TO CIVIL DISORDERS State Police Forces National Guard IV . ARMY RESPONSE ...
... FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND CIVIL DISORDERS Major Fire Department Problems in Civil Disorders Recommendations for Improving Fire Department Response III . STATE RESPONSE TO CIVIL DISORDERS State Police Forces National Guard IV . ARMY RESPONSE ...
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... fire . The police reacted hesitantly . Actions they did take further inflamed the people on the streets . The following day , the area was calm . Community leaders attempting to mediate between Negro residents and the police received ...
... fire . The police reacted hesitantly . Actions they did take further inflamed the people on the streets . The following day , the area was calm . Community leaders attempting to mediate between Negro residents and the police received ...
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... fire hydrant . Two police officers , arriving on the scene , closed the hydrant . A Negro youth turned it on again , and the police officers ar- rested him . A crowd gathered . Police reinforcements arrived . As the crowd became unruly ...
... fire hydrant . Two police officers , arriving on the scene , closed the hydrant . A Negro youth turned it on again , and the police officers ar- rested him . A crowd gathered . Police reinforcements arrived . As the crowd became unruly ...
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... fire , three persons were hit . One of them , a young Negro , died the next day . The National Guard re- stored order . Six days later , on May 16 , two separate Negro protests were taking place in Houston . One group was picketing a ...
... fire , three persons were hit . One of them , a young Negro , died the next day . The National Guard re- stored order . Six days later , on May 16 , two separate Negro protests were taking place in Houston . One group was picketing a ...
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... fire department ; none of high rank on the police force . Six of every 10 houses inhabited by Negroes were unsound . Many were shacks with broken window panes , gas leaks , and rat holes in the walls . Rents averaged $ 50 to $ 60 a ...
... fire department ; none of high rank on the police force . Six of every 10 houses inhabited by Negroes were unsound . Many were shacks with broken window panes , gas leaks , and rat holes in the walls . Rents averaged $ 50 to $ 60 a ...
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Page 95 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 256 - Centers to provide the full complement of welfare services should be combined into the multi-purpose neighborhood service facilities being developed by the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Federal funds should be provided to help local welfare agencies decentralize their programs through these centers, which would include representatives of all welfare, social, rehabilitation and income-assistance services.
Page 273 - Commission, hereinafter referred to as "the Commission." (b) The Commission shall be composed of...
Page 274 - What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again?
Page 201 - Important segments of the media failed to report adequately on the causes and consequences of civil disorders and on the underlying problems of race relations.
Page 313 - ... (US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Special Labor Force Report No. 75, "Poverty Areas of Our Major Cities,
Page 224 - America is the third — a policy which combines ghetto enrichment with programs designed to encourage integration of substantial numbers of Negroes into the society outside the ghetto.
Page 93 - A new mood has sprung up among Negroes, particularly among the young, in which self-esteem and enhanced racial pride are replacing apathy and submission to "the system.
Page 80 - ... old-age assistance, aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled, and aid to families with dependent children.
Page 274 - Congress ; but they shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of the duties vested in the Commission.