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A wake – or awake? – in Baltimore

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Bennett Minton

After riots broke out in cities across the country in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Known as the Kerner Commission after its chairman, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, it issued a 426-page … Continue reading →

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