The Kerner Report (eBook)

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2016
544 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8080-5 (ISBN)

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The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Its members included former Illinois governor Otto Kerner, New York City mayor John Lyndsay, U.S. senators Edward Brooke and Fred R. Harris, and NAACP executive director Roy Harris. Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His many books include The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and The Battle for the Great Society.

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A landmark study of racism, inequality, and police violence that continues to hold important lessons todayThe Kerner Report is a powerful window into the roots of racism and inequality in the United States. Hailed by Martin Luther King Jr. as a "e;physician's warning of approaching death, with a prescription for life,"e; this historic study was produced by a presidential commission established by Lyndon Johnson, chaired by former Illinois governor Otto Kerner, and provides a riveting account of the riots that shook 1960s America. The commission pointed to the polarization of American society, white racism, economic inopportunity, and other factors, arguing that only "e;a compassionate, massive, and sustained"e; effort could reverse the troubling reality of a racially divided, separate, and unequal society. Conservatives criticized the report as a justification of lawless violence while leftist radicals complained that Kerner didn't go far enough. But for most Americans, this report was an eye-opening account of what was wrong in race relations.Drawing together decades of scholarship showing the widespread and ingrained nature of racism, The Kerner Report provided an important set of arguments about what the nation needs to do to achieve racial justice, one that is familiar in today's climate. Presented here with an introduction by historian Julian Zelizer, The Kerner Report deserves renewed attention in America's continuing struggle to achieve true parity in race relations, income, employment, education, and other critical areas.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.5.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The James Madison Library in American Politics
• Reihe/Serie: The James Madison Library in American Politics
• Einführung: Julian E. Zelizer
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1967 riots • activism • African American • African Americans • Amendment • americans • Arrest • arson • attempt • Black • black people • Black Power • causes • chairman • Chicago • Chief of Police • City Manager • civil disorder • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • community leader • Crime • criminal justice • Cynicism (contemporary) • defendant • desegregation • Detroit • disadvantaged • distrust • Division Street • Employment • executive director • Funding • Ghetto • Government • grand jury • Guideline • hostility • Household • Housing • Incitement • income • Inequality • inner city • Institution • insurance • Kerner Commission • Law enforcement • law enforcement agency • Law Enforcement Officer • Legislation • local government • Looting • Los Angeles • Lyndon B. Johnson • Mass arrest • metropolitan area • middle class • minority group • Model Cities Program • Municipal services • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • National Guard • Newark • newspaper • of education • origins of urban crisis • Police • Police brutality • Police car • Police Misconduct • Police Officer • police violence • Politician • Politics • politics of the united states • Population Growth • Poverty • precinct • Prejudice • Prison • property damage • Proportion (architecture) • Prosecutor • Prostitution • Protest • Public housing • race riots • Racial segregation • Racism • Recommendation (European Union) • Recreation • Requirement • resentment • Residential Area • Riot • Riot control • roots of American racial divide • Sanitation • Segregation • separate and unequal • Slavery • Slum • Society of the United States • State Police • suburb • Systemic Racism • Tax • Tenement • Trade Union • underclass • underemployment • Unemployment • uprising • Urban decay • urban poverty • Urban renewal • Violence • Watts • Watts riots • welfare • what caused the 1960 riots • what did Kerner Commission recommend • What Happened • what was Kerner Commission • white flight • white racism • white supremacy • World War II • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8080-7 / 1400880807
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8080-5 / 9781400880805