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