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1988
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American Experience
The Riot Report 36 Season 5 Episode
113 min
1988
6.6
When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence during the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to determine what happened, why it happened, and what could be done to keep it from happening again. The bi-partisan commissionโs final report offered a shockingly unvarnished assessment of American race relations that would doom its finding to political oblivion.
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