Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 of The Millennium Breach was written by Fred R. Harris, Co-Chair of the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, former United States Senator (D., Oklahoma) and a member of the original National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Chapters 2 through 7 were written by Lynn A. Curtis, President of the Foundation and former Executive Director of President Carter's Urban and Regional Policy Group. Some of his work here has evolved from a lecture given at All Souls College, Oxford.

Eisenhower Foundation Vice Chairs Elliott Currie and Joy G. Dryfoos read the manuscript, made helpful suggestions and contributed sections to the report. Eisenhower Vice Chair Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich contributed to the section on race-specific policy. Eisenhower Foundation Trustee Leila McDowell and her partner Gwen McKinney organized the media strategy for dissemination of the report. Dorothy A. Coleman, Director for Capacity Building at the Foundation, supervised much of the production process, undertook research, copyedited and coordinated with the media as part of the Foundation's communicating what works initiative.

We wish to acknowledge the substantive input and advice of Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Rebecca Buchanan, Kent Cooper, David Chavis, Cushing Dolbeare, Greg Duncan, Pablo Eisenberg, Jeff Faux, Paul Jargowsky, Jerry Jones, Robert Kuttner, Molly Martin, James Quane, Bruce Raskin, Gary Sandefur, Elizabeth Sturz, William Taylor, Thomas Wells, Roger Wilkins and William Julius Wilson.

The work of Eddie Banks, Richard Foote, Rodney Jackson, Pat Kelly, Kien Lee and Ming Trammel contributed to chapters of this report, which was printed by ImaTek.

We strove to release a document on March 1, 1998, exactly 30 years to the day after the Kerner Commission issued its original report. Later, under less time pressure, we will publish a more elegantly packaged version of this update.

The report was word processed by Pam J. Green and assisted by Betty Entzminger and Katherine L. Hunter.

The front cover shows a scene from the Detroit riot in the late 1960s, reprinted from the original Kerner report. The back cover has feedback from the media on the Foundation's 25 year update of the Commission, published in 1993.