Word: kerner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also was a consultant to the Kerner Commission on methods for making local government more responsive and accountable...
...Otto Kerner, LL.D., judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, chairman of the 1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders...
Army intelligence agents have spied on Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson IH, former Gov. Otto Kerner and about 800 other civilians in Illinois alone, Sen, Sam J. Ervin Jr. said yesterday in Washington...
Aside from Stevenson and Kerner, Ervin said, the Illinois target list of the 113th Military Intelligence Group-with jurisdiction over the Midwest-included Democratic Rep. Abner Mikva and a host of state and local officials, political contributors, newspaper reporters, lawyers and church figures...
...real economic issues, the Democratic coalition can survive racial friction, but party leaders will have to acquire a mighty empathy for their working-class white constituents. In the last decade the Democrats callously shoved the burden of the black social revolution onto this much maligned class, which the Kerner Commission deigned to call racist. The federal government could have shifted the burden a little by creating more low and middle income housing for blacks and whites outside the existing corporate boundaries in the wealthier suburbs. (The suburbs vote Republican.) Instead, the Democrats permitted race to poison the party and leave...