Forty Year Update of the Kerner Riot Commission
The above photo is from Detroit, during the rebellion of 1967. In response to this and similar events across the nation, President Lyndon Johnson formed the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders – the Kerner Riot Commission, named after its Chair, then Illinois Governor Otto Kerner. The Eisenhower Foundation is the private sector continuation of the Kerner Riot Commission (and the National Violence Commission).
The Foundation periodically updates the Kerner Riot Commission (and the National Violence Commission).
In February 2008, the Foundation released a forty year update of the Kerner Riot Commission. Click here to read the Executive Summary of the Foundation's preliminary findings. The complete report will be posted in the future.
The Foundation is holding hearings around the nation to receive testimony from citizens for the forty year Kerner update. In addition to the National Forum on Public Morality, held on October 24-25, 2005, and the National Media Forum: Media, Poverty, Race and Inequality, held on December 12, 2006, hearings were held in Detroit on November 17, 2007 and in Newark on December 1, 2007.
For the agenda, click here for Detroit, click here for Newark.
Click here for media coverage.
For the hearing transcripts and videos, click here for Detroit, click here for Newark, click here for the National Media Forum: Media, Poverty, Race and Inequality, click here for the National Forum on Public Morality.
More hearings are being held.
For the Foundation's twenty-five year update of the Kerner Commission (in 1993), click here.
For the Foundation's thirty year update of the Kerner Commission (in 1998), click here.