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Essay Archive - Race Relations in the United States
Race Relations in the United States
America, 1967: Five years after the assassination of President
Kennedy, and the Civil Rights March in Washington D.C., the Kerner
Commission wrote a report that found that America was “moving towards two
societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.” Three decades
later, in an address at the University of California in San Diego,
President Clinton called for a year long conversation about race relations
in the United States. According to Clinton in half a century there will be
no majority race in America. “Will we become not two but many Americas,
separate, unequal and iso....
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