Last Witness: The Kerner Commission

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🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Report pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the conditions that had triggered a series of protests in Black communities across the United States in the summer of 1967.

Former Senator Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, a group appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the protests and author the report.

This story is a part of our Last Witness series, audio portraits of the last surviving witnesses to major historical events.

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