Commission Files, 1967 - 1968

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Commission Files, 1967 - 1968

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This series consists of reports, correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, and publications collected by Robert S. Shellow related to his service on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. The papers cover the Commission’s budget, organization, assignments, meetings, research, and reporting. They include materials on the causes, costs, effects, and prevention of civil disturbances, as well as materials on individual incidents, the nature of different types of civil disturbance, areas affected by rioting, and the participants of civil disorders.

3 linear feet, 9 linear inches

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

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United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

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In the summer of 1967 a riots broke out in Newark, New Jersey and Detroit, Michigan owing, in part, to political, economic, and social factors including police abuse, lack of affordable housing , urban renewal projects, economic inequality, black militancy, and rapid demographic change. These followed similar outbreaks in Los Angeles and Cleveland the year before. In reaction the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (also known as the Kerner Commission, after its chairman, Gov. Otto K...