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Events on Thursday 29 February 1968 1
1968Kerner Commission report releasedUS panel warns nation is moving toward two societies, separate and unequalA presidential commission investigating the causes of 1967's urban riots concluded that white racism, not black militancy, was primarily responsible for the violence. Its widely quoted finding warned that America was "moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal." Many of its policy recommendations were not adopted.