Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil DisordersReferred to as the Kerner Commission Report. |
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... Mayor of New York City FRED R. HARRIS United States Senator Oklahoma I. W. ABEL President United Steelworkers of America ( AFL - CIO ) EDWARD W. BROOKE United States Senator Massachusetts CHARLES B. THORNTON Chairman of the Board and ...
... Mayor of New York City FRED R. HARRIS United States Senator Oklahoma I. W. ABEL President United Steelworkers of America ( AFL - CIO ) EDWARD W. BROOKE United States Senator Massachusetts CHARLES B. THORNTON Chairman of the Board and ...
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... Mayors and City Councils Hearings on Ghetto Problems and Enactment of Appropriate Local Legislation Expanded Employment by City Government of Ghetto Residents SECOND PHASE ACTIONS . Establishment of Neighborhood City Halls Development ...
... Mayors and City Councils Hearings on Ghetto Problems and Enactment of Appropriate Local Legislation Expanded Employment by City Government of Ghetto Residents SECOND PHASE ACTIONS . Establishment of Neighborhood City Halls Development ...
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... Mayor Nuccio met with residents . At their sugges- tion that the man most likely to carry weight with the youngsters was Coach Jim Williams , he placed a call to Tallahassee , where Williams was attending a coaching clinic . An ...
... Mayor Nuccio met with residents . At their sugges- tion that the man most likely to carry weight with the youngsters was Coach Jim Williams , he placed a call to Tallahassee , where Williams was attending a coaching clinic . An ...
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... Mayor Walton H. Bachrach declared that he was " quite surprised " by the disturbance because the coun- cil had " worked like hell " to help Negroes . Municipal officials , whose contacts were , as in other cities , gen- erally with a ...
... Mayor Walton H. Bachrach declared that he was " quite surprised " by the disturbance because the coun- cil had " worked like hell " to help Negroes . Municipal officials , whose contacts were , as in other cities , gen- erally with a ...
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... Mayor A block is considered to have been " busted " when one Negro family has been sold a home in a previously all - white area . have been total removal of all white persons , whatever their capacity , from the ghetto area . Demand No ...
... Mayor A block is considered to have been " busted " when one Negro family has been sold a home in a previously all - white area . have been total removal of all white persons , whatever their capacity , from the ghetto area . Demand No ...
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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.