AMERICAN NOTES The Cities Revisited More than three years after the Kerner Commission analyzed the causes of the great urban riots of the 1960s, the racial ghettos of the U.S. are more than ever an environment of decay, distrust and despair. That is the conclusion of a report, "The State of the Cities." issued by a commission of the National Urban Coalition.
"Housing is still the national scandal it was then," says the report. "Schools are more tedious and turbulent. The rate of crime and unemployment and disease and heroin addiction are...
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