Kerner Commission

The Kerner Commission (officially the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders) was a 1967-1968 U.S. commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of urban race riots in the 1960s. Its landmark 1968 report warned that the U.S. was moving toward two separate and unequal societies and that ignoring Black communities would make racial inequality permanent.

Claims that use this term

• The 1968 Kerner Commission warned that ignoring Black communities would make racial inequality permanent.
• Black communities have worsened since the Kerner Commission report despite civil rights gains