The Kerner Report — Why Urban Disorder Becomes a Systems Problem
What happens when a society responds to the eruption of disorder without changing the conditions that helped produce it?
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Using The Kerner Report by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders as our lens, this investigation examines the institutional forces behind the urban unrest of the 1960s.
The Commission rejected an organized-conspiracy explanation and instead traced disorder to interacting systems of segregation, employment exclusion, concentrated poverty, inadequate housing and services, political…
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