The last living member of a commission on the civil unrest of 1967 believes today’s protests are indicative of a broader awareness in American society and could finally lead to lasting improvement in race relations.
WASHINGTON — In 1967, the nation was consumed in protests over racism and police brutality, and Sen. Fred Harris watched from Washington, D.C., as Newark, N.J., and Detroit burned.
President Lyndon Johnson was personally stung and stunned by the civil unrest, which he saw as a rebuke of his own efforts at racial equality. Early in his presidency, he had signed the Voting Rights and Civil Rights acts, both landmark achievements. But there were, it was evident, problems that the legislation could not fix.
Decades before demonstrators filled streets in New York City and Washington, D.C., with placards decrying “white silence,” the Kerner Report warned that racism had created in the inner cities “a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans.” The report was a survey of the 23 cities that had undergone convulsions of violence months before. Police brutality was at the center of many of the conflagrations, as it has been today in Minneapolis and many other places before that.
That brought her to where Harris and his Kerner peers have been since 1968, lamenting racial divisions that demand reconciliation. “It holds,” he said of the 52-year-old report. Zelizer was especially struck by its frank addressing of white racism as a cause of the unrest.
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