The+Kerner+Commission

In July of 1967, Lyndon B Johnson formed a councel of eleven members dubbed The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder to analyze riots and suggest ways that the president would be able to avoid similar events in the future. The chairman, Otto Kerner, led to the commission's alias The Kerner Comission. The commission's job was to research any questions the president had that applied to social behavior and rioting, with a specific focus on the influence of the media in the formation and inaccurate representation of the riots. In 1968, they filed a report known as "The Kerner Report" explaining the nation's gradual downfall into a urban socialization of apartheid - or two groups of people living seperately and unequally among each other. The commission used this report to urge the president to promote racial equality in the work place especially, and ensure training programs and decent housing to all citizens entirely blind of race. One month after the release of the report, and after president Johnson denied and dismissed it publically and through the media, riots fittingly broke out in over 100 major cities across the nation and they were empowered by the mentality that they could fulfill the life and inclusive dream of recently assassinated hero, Martin Luther King Jr. It protected the knowledge of the fact that they were able to fight back against their government, and that citizens had a power to affect the government and the way their country is run. When there was a cause, they gave the effect.



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