AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

THE RIOT REPORT

TUESDAY, MAY 21 @ 7:00PM & 11:00PM

When Black neighborhoods in scores of American cities erupted in violence during the summer of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders — informally known as the Kerner Commission — to answer three questions: What happened? Why did it happen? And what could be done to prevent it from happening again?

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