Author Question: What were the recommendations of the Kerner Commission? A) strengthening of local police forces ... (Read 31 times)

CharlieWard · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

What were the recommendations of the Kerner Commission?

A) strengthening of local police forces to ensure that law and order could be maintained in the nation's cities.
B) increases in federal expenditures for programs that provided assistance to urban African-Americans.
C) financing a system of medical care for the elderly.
D) a 20 percent increase in the defense budget, a five-fold increase in the purchase of intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the building of nuclear submarines armed with Polaris missiles.
E) more jails, larger police forces, and a reinstitution of the death penalty.

Question 2

Which of the following was an explanation offered for the destructive race riots that swept American cities between 1964 and 1968?

A) they were revolutionary violence to overthrow a racist, reactionary society.
B) they were evidence of a communist plot to subvert the United States.
C) they were senseless outbursts by troublemakers.
D) they were the product of white racism, poverty, slum housing, poor education, and police brutality.
E) all of these choices