Tag: Separate and unequal
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Moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal
At the height of the Detroit rebellion, on July 28, 1967, President Johnson appointed a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to answer three basic questions about the riots: “What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?“ Mounting civil unrest since 1965 had spawned riots…