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A CHANCE TO EXPLORE THIS PROGRAM WITH INDIVIDUALS THAT LIVED AND PARTICIPATED IN THE MILWAUKEE AREA DURING 1967

Join us after the film premiere for a discussion of American Experience PBS’ The Riot Report, which explores a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to answer three questions: What happened? Why did it happen? And what could be done to prevent it from happening again? The commission’s final report would offer a shockingly unvarnished assessment of American race relations that would doom its finding to political oblivion.

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