Kerner Commission<span> after its chair, Governor Otto </span>Kerner, Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-membercommission<span> established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Executive Order 11365 to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and to provide </span>
King is trying to show how the promises made by the founding fathers – in documents like the Emancipation Proclamation and the Declaration of Independence – had not been fulfilled.King is trying to show that segregation and discrimination is not Godly or Christian.King does not believe that America can truly be great as long as there is inequality.<span>King is trying to argue that great men in history – like Jefferson and Lincoln – would support the civil rights movement.</span>
