Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil DisordersReferred to as the Kerner Commission Report. |
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... " FREEDOM NOW ! " AND CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS 109 FAILURES OF DIRECT ACTION 109 NEW DIRECTIONS 110 " BLACK POWER " . 110 OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES THE MEANING . 111 112 Chapter VI . THE FORMATION OF THE RACIAL GHETTOS MAJOR X.
... " FREEDOM NOW ! " AND CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS 109 FAILURES OF DIRECT ACTION 109 NEW DIRECTIONS 110 " BLACK POWER " . 110 OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES THE MEANING . 111 112 Chapter VI . THE FORMATION OF THE RACIAL GHETTOS MAJOR X.
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... RACIAL GHETTOS MAJOR TRENDS IN NEGRO POPULATION THE GROWTH RATE OF THE NEGRO POPULATION THE MIGRATION OF NEGROES FROM THE SOUTH The Magnitude of This Migration Important Characteristics of This Migration Future Migration THE ...
... RACIAL GHETTOS MAJOR TRENDS IN NEGRO POPULATION THE GROWTH RATE OF THE NEGRO POPULATION THE MIGRATION OF NEGROES FROM THE SOUTH The Magnitude of This Migration Important Characteristics of This Migration Future Migration THE ...
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... RACIAL PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES A Failure to Communicate Negroes in Journalism The Negro in the Media INSTITUTE OF URBAN COMMUNICATIONS Page 186 187 189 189 189 191 192 193 194 197 198 201 202 203 204 204 204 205 206 208 208 208 ...
... RACIAL PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES A Failure to Communicate Negroes in Journalism The Negro in the Media INSTITUTE OF URBAN COMMUNICATIONS Page 186 187 189 189 189 191 192 193 194 197 198 201 202 203 204 204 204 205 206 208 208 208 ...
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... Racial Equality to protest the Mis- sissippi lynch murders developed into a march on a precinct police station . The crowd clashed with the police ; one person was killed , and 12 police officers and 19 citizens were injured . For ...
... Racial Equality to protest the Mis- sissippi lynch murders developed into a march on a precinct police station . The crowd clashed with the police ; one person was killed , and 12 police officers and 19 citizens were injured . For ...
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... racial hatred at a series of rallies in Baltimore . Bands of white youths were incited into chasing and beating Negroes . A court order halted the rallies . Forty - three disorders and riots were reported during 1966. Although there ...
... racial hatred at a series of rallies in Baltimore . Bands of white youths were incited into chasing and beating Negroes . A court order halted the rallies . Forty - three disorders and riots were reported during 1966. Although there ...
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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.