Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil DisordersReferred to as the Kerner Commission Report. |
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... less than $ 3,000 a year . The result was that 40 percent of the Negro chil- dren lived in broken homes , and the city's crime rate ranked in the top 25 percent in the Nation . About a month before , police - community relations had ...
... less than $ 3,000 a year . The result was that 40 percent of the Negro chil- dren lived in broken homes , and the city's crime rate ranked in the top 25 percent in the Nation . About a month before , police - community relations had ...
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... less than 2 percent of truckdrivers in the Cincinnati area are Negro . Late in the afternoon , the youths began to interfere with deliveries being made by white drivers . Dr. Bruce Green , president of the local NAACP chapter , was noti ...
... less than 2 percent of truckdrivers in the Cincinnati area are Negro . Late in the afternoon , the youths began to interfere with deliveries being made by white drivers . Dr. Bruce Green , president of the local NAACP chapter , was noti ...
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... less than half of the white's $ 6,350 a year , and 48 per- cent of Negro families earned less than $ 3,000 a year . Fifty percent of the men worked in unskilled jobs , and many more Negro women than men , 7.9 percent as against 4.9 ...
... less than half of the white's $ 6,350 a year , and 48 per- cent of Negro families earned less than $ 3,000 a year . Fifty percent of the men worked in unskilled jobs , and many more Negro women than men , 7.9 percent as against 4.9 ...
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... less money to spend on education . Newark's per capita outlay on schools was considerably less than that of surrounding communi- ties . Yet within the city's school system were 78,000 children , 14,000 more than 10 years earlier ...
... less money to spend on education . Newark's per capita outlay on schools was considerably less than that of surrounding communi- ties . Yet within the city's school system were 78,000 children , 14,000 more than 10 years earlier ...
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... less than $ 2 million . Twenty - three persons were killed - a white detective , a white fireman , and 21 Negroes . One was 73 - year - old Isaac Harrison . Six were women . Two were children . under - represented on the local ...
... less than $ 2 million . Twenty - three persons were killed - a white detective , a white fireman , and 21 Negroes . One was 73 - year - old Isaac Harrison . Six were women . Two were children . under - represented on the local ...
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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.