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Page 91 - White racism is essentially responsible for the explosive mixture which has been accumulating in our cities since the end of World War II.
Page 95 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 332 - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and...
Page 1 - This is our basic conclusion: Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.
Page 296 - What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again?
Page 224 - America is the third — a policy which combines ghetto enrichment with programs designed to encourage integration of substantial numbers of Negroes into the society outside the ghetto.
Page 2 - It is time now to turn with all the purpose at our command to the major unfinished business of this nation. It is time to adopt strategies for action that will produce quick and visible progress. It is time to make good the promises of American democracy to all citizens — urban and rural, white and black, Spanishsurname, American Indian, and every minority group.
Page 93 - A new mood has sprung up among Negroes, particularly among the young, in which self-esteem and enhanced racial pride are replacing apathy and submission to "the system.
Page 80 - Old Age Assistance, Aid to the Blind, Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled...
Page 98 - I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Report |
| Author | United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 425 pages |
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