The commission released its report seven months later, on February 29, 1968. The 426-page document reasoned that the riots of 1967 resulted from Black frustration with a lack of economic opportunity and access to the mainstream of American life. It called out both state and federal governments for failures in housing, education, and social services. “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one Black, one white—separate and unequal,” it famously concluded.
