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Opportunities and resources. The Kerner Commission made the case we need to equalize opportunities, equalize resources. That is what we should have done in 1968 and we should seek to do today. Had aa historian, if you chance to sit down with dr. King, what would you ask . Thatld ask him whether he still felt his dream had turned into a nightmare by the time he died. King gave a prominent interview with a reporter where he stated my dream from 1963 has turned into a nightmare. Of course, the evening before his assassination he gave the mountaintop speech. He said i may not get there with you, b...

Divisive times in American History. A time that marks the emergence of a postcivil rights racial order that defines american psyd today. Formally known as the National Advisory committee on civil disorders, president johnson establish the committee in july following violent racial confrontations in newark and detroit which left 69 people africanamericans, and city blocks burned to the ground. That summer there were more than 150 riots around the United States. Ignited byriots were incidents of Police Brutality. Of growingtime racial and Political Polarization and the retreats from the progress...

Live coverage on cspan 3. The next seven months, the commissioners and staff they a probingpursued examination of conditions that fueled the riot, including visits to 20 three cities, interviews with residents and activists, and confrontation with realities invisible to most politicians and policymakers. The Kerner Commission produced a 704 page report that sold 2 million copies. We have a group or today prepared to offer insight into the report, the historical context, and significance. I will introduce them in the order in which they will present. Julian zelizer. And publicf history affairs ...

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Martin luther king jr. said it was piecemeal. he said the great society has been broken and eviscerated and turned into an idle play thing by a society gone mad on war. i think we continue to see these problems today. we are treating the symptoms, but we continue to sharpen the knife. i see the knife the same as dr. martin luther king did. i also see wall street as one of those knives. it made 10 million people displaced in the wake of the foreclosure crisis. >> tim, can you document that aspect of it? can we measure how much that dynamic from the left helped? >> look, first of all, the war on...