Rep. Beatty Issues Statement on 50th Anniversary of Kerner Report
March 10, 2018
March 10, 2018
WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, issued the following speech, which was published in the Congressional Record on March 9, on the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Report:
Mr. Speaker, 1968 was a watershed year in our nation's history. That year saw the deadliest period of the Vietnam War and the peak of protests against that conflict. It saw the passage of the Fair Housing Act but the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. 1968 saw P . . .
Mr. Speaker, 1968 was a watershed year in our nation's history. That year saw the deadliest period of the Vietnam War and the peak of protests against that conflict. It saw the passage of the Fair Housing Act but the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. 1968 saw P . . .