a. blamed the urban riots on segregation and poverty.
The "Kerner Commission" as it was often called, after its chairman, Otto Kerner, Jr., the governor of Illinois, was officially the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. President Lyndon Johnson appointed the 11-member panel in July, 1967. The "Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders," often simply termed the "Kerner Report," was completed by the end of February, 1968. The report was an indictment of white racism and racial segregation that pointed to extreme lack of economic opportunity for black Americans.
