Jack Rosenthal, Times Journalist and Civic Leader, Is Dead at 82.
*Mr. Rosenthal was the principal editor of a 265-page report by the Kerner Commission, officially called the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, led by Gov. Otto Kerner Jr. of Illinois and created by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of the racial uprising in 1967. Mr. Rosenthal wrote the chapter titled “The Future of the Cities.”
Choosing integration as a goal, he wrote, would require more federal spending to mitigate the impact of segregation and deprivation in urban neighborhoods and expand opportunities for better housing, jobs and schools.
“This choice would be aimed at reversing the movement of the country toward two societies, separate and unequal,” his chapter concluded.'>>>
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