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Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders  

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  • The National Adviosry Commission on Civil Disorders was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 as a response to the numerous so-called race riots that had occurred in the United States in the mid-1960s, including Watts (1965), Chicago (1966), and Newark (1967). The 11-member commission was known popularly as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr., of Illinois. [Source: Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America; Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders]

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