Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Vintage)

The facts behind the shame of our cities, the crisis of our nation! The horror of Watts was the first shattering revelation about America's racial crisis--and a grim prelude to the future. The summer of 1967--in Newark, Detroit, Cleveland, and across the nation--revealed the bitter, deep-rooted dissension in our cities, the result of over 300 years of inequities. On July 29, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed a special commission of distinguished Americans under Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois to search for the roots of the rising militancy in our country--and the widening gap between white and black Americans. Now, after seven months of painstaking investigation, here are the dramatic answers. Here are the causes of and remedies for the smoldering violence in America today.