Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism [First edition] 9780465096084, 9780465096091, 0465096085

Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders-- popularly known as the K

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English Pages xvi, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Year 2018

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Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism [First edition]
9780465096084, 9780465096091, 0465096085

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USA National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders;Gillon
Steven M;Johnson
Lyndon Baines

Table of contents :
Introduction --
"It looks like Berlin in 1945" --
"What do they want?" --
"Let your search be free" --
"I'll take out my pocketknife and cut your peter off" --
"I think we should avoid overstatement" --
"A straitjacket of facts" --
"White racism" --
"Can you really say this in a government report?" --
"That's good and tell him I appreciate that" --
"Lindsay has taken effective control of the Commission" --
"Two societies" --
"I'd be a hypocrite" --
"The most courageous government report in the last decade" --
"The 60s and 70s seem to have left us exhausted."

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