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March 2, 2018

Civil Rights Progress Elusive 50 Years After Kerner Commission
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A new report finds the gains of the civil rights movement have
stalled-and in some cases lost ground-over the past half-century. Among
the report's findings: School segregation is on the rise, white
supremacist movements are becoming emboldened and more violent, and
child poverty has increased-from 15.5 percent in 1968 to 21 percent
today. The report comes on the 50th anniversary of a report by the
Kerner Commission, which was assembled by President Lyndon Johnson in
the wake of uprisings by African Americans in Newark and Detroit. The
commission concluded that the United States was "moving toward two
societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal."


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