# Separate and Unequal

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- Authors: [Steven Gillon](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-gillon)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-03-29

## Description

The definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequality In Separate and Unequal, historian Steven M. Gillon offers a revelatory new history of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders-popularly known as the Kerner Commission. Convened by President Lyndon Johnson after riots in Newark and Detroit left dozens dead and thousands injured, the commission issued a report in 1968 that attributed the unrest to " white racism" and called for aggressive new programs to end racism and poverty. " Our nation is moving toward two societies," they warned, " one black, and one white-separate and unequal." Johnson refused to accept the Kerner Report, and as his political coalition unraveled, its proposals when nowhere. For the right, the report became a symbol of liberal excess, and for the left, one of opportunities lost. Separate and Unequal is essential for anyone seeking to understand the roots of our vexed racial debates today.

## Editions

### Separate and Unequal

- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6509-608-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2018-03-29
- Language: en_GB