Juneteenth - heed “Separate and Unequal” warning and move forward together
In August of 1965, just five days after the historic Voting Rights Act was signed into law, a violent incident between white police and Black residents broke out in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Five days of unrest occurred, and it spread t hroughout the summers of 1965 and 1966 , culminating with the worst civil unrest of the decade, the Detroit riots of 1967 that left 43 people dead. In the aftermath , President Lyndon Johnson ordered a government review of the causes for the uprisings in American cities. In the fall of 1967 , the Kerner Commission, more formally known as the National Advisory Commission of Civil Disorders, was convened. The commission findings were a startling admission by the U.S. Government of the role that racism played in “producing the conditions that were at the heart of the riots . ” The report traced the problems occurring ...
