The official name for the commission was the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders but is better known as the Kerner Commission. President Johnson wanted to know why the riots were happening and how could they be stopped. The president thought militant groups had to be behind the rioting. The Kerner Commission found that to be not true at all. What was behind the rioting was “racism, poverty, and injustice in our cities”.(Kerner) The Commission brought to light just how much poverty and hopelessness there was in the inner cities. It exposed “white
The official name for the commission was the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders but is better known as the Kerner Commission. President Johnson wanted to know why the riots were happening and how could they be stopped. The president thought militant groups had to be behind the rioting. The Kerner Commission found that to be not true at all. What was behind the rioting was “racism, poverty, and injustice in our cities”.(Kerner) The Commission brought to light just how much poverty and hopelessness there was in the inner cities. It exposed “white