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President Lyndon B. Johnson with some members of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission, in the Cabinet Room of the White House on July 29th, 1967.
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The Prescient Warnings of the Kerner Commission

In his new book, historian Steven M. Gillon revisits the presidential commission created to investigate the riots of 1967.

By Brandon Tensley