Question

rather than identify police brutality as a cause for the riots, president johnson instead focused on dropdown.

options:
poverty
discrimination
peaceful protests
unfair enforcement of laws

Explanation:

Analyze President Johnson's response to the 1960s urban riots

President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Kerner Commission in 1967 to investigate the causes of the urban riots. While the commission's report highlighted systemic racism and police brutality as primary drivers, Johnson publicly distanced himself from these findings. Instead of focusing on police brutality or systemic discrimination, Johnson consistently pointed to socioeconomic deprivation, specifically poverty, as the root cause that his Great Society programs were designed to address.

Evaluate the given options

• poverty: Aligns with Johnson's political focus on his "War on Poverty" and Great Society initiatives as the solution to racial unrest.
• discrimination: The Kerner Commission emphasized this, but Johnson downplayed it.
• peaceful protests: This does not fit the context of identifying a structural cause for violent riots.
• unfair enforcement of laws: This is synonymous with police misconduct, which Johnson avoided highlighting.

Answer:

Rather than identify police brutality as a cause for the riots, President Johnson instead focused on <blank>poverty</blank>.

• poverty (Correct answer)
• discrimination
• peaceful protests
• unfair enforcement of laws