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Box 2

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, excerpts from the Kerner Commission, 1968

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 35-36
Scope and Content

A report from a commission created by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the wake of the riots in Newark, New Jersey and Detroit, Michigan. The report discusses these riots, as well as disorders in 22 other cities, with an emphasis on their participants and the adequacy of law enforcement's response.

Dates: 1968