Report of the National Advisory (Kerner Report 1967)

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Photographs



EYEWITNESS TO CRISIS



A street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of New York



Fires hoses aimed at demonstrating Negroes.



One bed for three children in a Detroit ghetto apartment.



View inside the classroom of a school in an urban ghetto.



Negroes flee from police after outburst in Detroit slums.



Michigan's National Guardsmen force rioting Negroes from a burning building with bayonets on Detroit's west side.



National Guardsmen and state police collar suspected looters along Newark's Springfield Avenue during summer riots.

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National Guardsman and Detroit resident share a doorway.



Paratrooper and youngster waiting for the Detroit curfew.



A reporter seeks a statement from a woman badly wounded during the second night of rioting in Newark, New Jersey.



Three looters reach through the grating of a liquor store.



Here employees sit guard after a window has been smashed.



Looters carry as much as they can during the Detroit riot.



Teenagers are booked at police station for alleged looting.



Detroit citizens as they are marched to the police station.

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A suspected looter awaits legal action in Detroit jail.



National Guardsmen search homes in Plainfield, New Jersey, for carbines and ammunition stolen from an arms maker.



National Guardsmen search homes in Plainfield, New Jersey, for carbines and ammunition stolen from an arms maker.



The inside of a Plainfield home after National Guardsmen and the state police have finished their search for arms.



National Guard troops watch armored tank along Newark's streets during third night of violence in summer 1967,



Negroes among the charred ruins of their home in Detroit.



Negro children in New Haven talk with police officer at the Neighborhood Center for Police Community Relations. The first such organization to be established in the riot-affected city, it demonstrated hope for new cooperation.



BLACK SOUL / BLACK SOUL BROTHER / BLACK / SOUL



THE COMPLETE TEXT

THE FACT 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.

THE U.S. RIOT COMMISSION REPORT

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 Negro 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.