It spawned the famous -- infamous? -- line: Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal. Its true name was the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Most people know it as the Kerner Report -- so called because it was chaired by Illinois governor Otto Kerner, Jr. -- and it was published forty years ago today.
The report was commissioned by President Johnson in an effort to determine and help quell the...
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