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The Kerner Commission Report Fifty Years Later: Revisiting the American Dream

Susan T. Gooden, Samuel L. Myers, Jr
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2018, 4 (6) 1-17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.01
Susan T. Gooden
aInterim dean and professor of public administration and policy at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University
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Samuel L. Myers Jr
bRoy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice and directs the Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice at the University of Minnesota
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Susan T. Gooden, Samuel L. Myers
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Sep 2018, 4 (6) 1-17; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.01
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