asThe Federal Kerner Commission predicted....
Ferguson, Mo. Emblematic of Growing Suburban Povertyin 2014
The Kerner report delivered an indictment of “white
society” for isolating and neglecting African Americans and urged
legislation to promote racial integration and to enrich slums—primarily
through the creation of jobs, job training programs, and decent housing...
History is repeating itself, naw History doesn't repeat itself , but it rhymes sometimes:
“Our Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One Black, One White—Separate and Unequal”: Excerpts from the Kerner Report
President Lyndon Johnson formed an 11-member
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders in July 1967 to explain
the riots that plagued cities each summer since 1964 and to provide
recommendations for the future. The Commission’s 1968 report, informally
known as the Kerner Report, concluded that the nation was “moving
toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” Unless
conditions were remedied, the Commission warned, the country faced a
“system of ’apartheid’” in its major cities. The Kerner report delivered
an indictment of “white society” for isolating and neglecting African
Americans and urged legislation to promote racial integration and to
enrich slums—primarily through the creation of jobs, job training
programs, and decent housing. President Johnson, however, rejected the
recommendations. In April 1968, one month after the release of the
Kerner report, rioting broke out in more than 100 cities following the
assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. In the
following excerpts from the Kerner Report summary, the Commission
analyzed patterns in the riots and offered explanations for the
disturbances. In 1998, 30 years after the issuance of the Report, former
Senator and Commission member Fred R. Harris co-authored a study that
found the racial divide had grown in the ensuing years with inner-city
unemployment at crisis levels. Opposing voices argued that the
Commission’s prediction of separate societies had failed to materialize
due to a marked increase in the number of African Americans living in
suburbs.
Ferguson, Mo. Emblematic of Growing Suburban Povertyin 2014http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2014/08/15-ferguson-suburban-poverty
Ferguson, Mo. Emblematic of Growing Suburban Poverty
Nearly a week after the death
of 18 year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., protests continue in the
21,000-person suburban community on St. Louis’ north side and around
the nation.
Amid the social media and news coverage of
the community’s response to the police shooting of the unarmed teenager,
a picture of Ferguson and its history has emerged.
The New York Times
and others have described the deep-seated racial tensions and
inequalities that have long plagued the St. Louis region, as well as the
dramatic demographic transformation of Ferguson from a largely white
suburban enclave (it was 85 percent white as recently as 1980) to a
predominantly black community (it was 67 percent black by 2008-2012).But Ferguson has also been home to dramatic economic changes in recent years. The city’s unemployment rate rose from roughly 7 percent in 2000 to over 13 percent in 2010-12. For those residents who were employed, inflation-adjusted average earnings fell by one-third. The number of households using federal Housing Choice Vouchers climbed from roughly 300 in 2000 to more than 800 by the end of the decade.
Amid these changes, poverty skyrocketed. Between 2000 and 2010-2012, Ferguson’s poor population doubled. By the end of that period, roughly one in four residents lived below the federal poverty line ($23,492 for a family of four in 2012), and 44 percent fell below twice that level.
These changes affected neighborhoods throughout Ferguson. At the start of the 2000s, the five census tracts that fall within Ferguson’s border registered poverty rates ranging between 4 and 16 percent. However, by 2008-2012 almost all of Ferguson’s neighborhoods had poverty rates at or above the 20 percent threshold at which the negative effects of concentrated poverty begin to emerge. (One Ferguson tract had a poverty rate of 13.1 percent in 2008-2012, while the remaining tracts fell between 19.8 and 33.3 percent.)
Census Tract-Level Poverty Rates in St. Louis County, 2000
"Our Nation Is Moving Toward Two Societies, One Black, One White—Separate and Unequal”: Excerpts from the Kerner Report
- Charles Brown http://www.brookings.edu/.../08/15-ferguson-suburban-poverty
Nearly a week after the death of 18 year-old...brookings.edu 
Charles Brown "The Commission’s 1968 report, informally known as the Kerner Report, concluded that the nation was “moving toward two societies, one black,
one white—separate and unequal.” Unless conditions were remedied, the
Commission warned, the country faced a “system of ’apartheid’” in its
major cities. The Kerner report delivered an indictment of “white
society” for isolating and neglecting African Americans and urged
legislation to promote racial integration and to enrich slums—primarily
through the creation of jobs, job training programs, and decent housing..."- Charles Brown "
https://www.jacobinmag.com/.../in-defense-of-the.../
In Defense of the Ferguson Riots by Robert...jacobinmag.com
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