America's Racial Divide: The Kerner Report 40 Years Later
A Roundtable
Wednesday, 22 Oct 2008 at 8:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
President Lyndon Johnson formed an 11-member National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders in July 1967 to explain the riots that plagued cities each summer since 1964 and to provide recommendations for the future. The Commission’s 1968 report, informally known as the Kerner Report, concluded that the nation was “moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” The Kerner Commission work was continued by the bipartisan Eisenhower Violence Commission, formed by President Johnson and extended by President Nixon. Iowa State Rep. Wayne Ford, a member of the Eisenhower Foundation, and Carolyn Cutrona, director of the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research and professor of psychology at Iowa State, will lead the discussion.Cosponsored By:
- The Eisenhower Foundation
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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