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One of the best of the reports by a commission studying a social problem, in this case the urban revolts/riots of the mid-1960s. Unfortunately, the Commission's recommendations--to address the sources of the violence rather than the symptoms--went almost entirely unheeded when it was released in the tumultuous year of 1968. Jelani Cobb's introduction does a beautiful job tying the issues of the Sixties to the era of George Floyd. Very damn little has changed, including the unwillingness to deal
Worth reading for Cobb’s penetrating introduction alone. The abridged report itself is a remarkable document, prescient, deeply insightful, yet largely ignored by the LBJ administration, to our everlasting loss. A timely read from another (all too familiar) time
It is a good read in terms of looking at how far this country has not come. I find it tragic that we are still dealing with the same issues of racial inequality still if not even worse than before. Lots of statistics so if you don't like tables and graphs read it for the narrative because it will shock you how little progress has been made.
This book a Commission report about the riots in 1967. I just got done reading No Cause for Indictment. A lot of the information was consistent between the two. It provides lots of statistics and what caused the riots as per President Johnson. Now he thought it would show that poverty was the cause of the riots. It turned out that was only part of it and race was the central component. It is completely relevant to today and it is not dated at all. It's very informative and an easy read.
Dr. Clark Had It RightImportant reading for us all. How many times do we to be told what needs to be done. Here it is in cogent fashion on 1967 disorders, the lessons that should be drawn in 2020-21 are little different. Can we get it done now; it's up to you.
The beginning was pretty repetitive. There were long sections pretty much copy and pasted in the first 80 or so pages. Maybe me pretty annoyed when reading the rest of the book, which is disappointing because this book has such important information.
All this in the 1960s. Good lord. What have we been doing all this time?
