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The Contemporary Legal Context
2016
Overview
Though civil rights advocates had won several hard-fought battles by the mid-1960s, racial tensions between police and minority groups ran high for many reasons.¹ Indeed, a series of urban riots occurred between 1964 and 1967, which led President Johnson to establish the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, more commonly known as the Kerner Commission. The Kerner Commission began its final report by stating its basic conclusion: “Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one Black, and one White—separate and unequal.”² The commission warned that the country faced a system of apartheid in its major cities unless a host
