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Julian E. Zelizer

Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His many books include The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and The Battle for the Great Society. A new edition of the Kerner Report introduced by Zelizer is out this month from Princeton University Press.

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Class & Inequality, Race

Fifty Years Ago, the Government Said Black Lives Matter

The 1968 Kerner report concluded that white racism was to blame for race riots.

Julian E. Zelizer

       

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