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Rick Loessberg is an Urban Policy Historian and retired Director of Planning and Development for Dallas County in Dallas, Texas. He holds a BS in Urban Studies from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Public Affairs from The LBJ School of Public Affairs. Loessberg has previously written numerous articles on the Kerner Report and conducted an oral history interview of Kerner Commission member Fred Harris for the LBJ Presidential Library. He also has had a more than thirty-year career working for or with local, state, and federal government and administering many of the types of programs that the Kerner Report recommended.
During the fall semester of 2024, Loessberg spoke at the John Hope Franklin Center’s ‘Wednesdays at the Center’ series with his lecture ‘The Kerner Report at 56: Why It's Still Relevant’. In this talk, he discusses how the Kerner Report concluded that 1967's rioting was a reaction to decades of pervasive discrimination and segregation. Although the report is now 56 years old, it can not only tell us what happened in 1967, but what is happening now and how we might be able to navigate our way through today's controversy regarding race and discrimination. The event was sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center.
Website: https://jhfc.duke.edu
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Rick Loessberg is an Urban Policy Historian and retired Director of Planning and Development for Dallas County in Dallas, Texas. He holds a BS in Urban Studies from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Public Affairs from The LBJ School of Public Affairs. Loessberg has previously written numerous articles on the Kerner Report and conducted an oral history interview of Kerner Commission member Fred Harris for the LBJ Presidential Library. He also has had a more than thirty-year career working for or with local, state, and federal government and administering many of the types of programs that the Kerner Report recommended.
During the fall semester of 2024, Loessberg spoke at the John Hope Franklin Center’s ‘Wednesdays at the Center’ series with his lecture ‘The Kerner Report at 56: Why It's Still Relevant’. In this talk, he discusses how the Kerner Report concluded that 1967's rioting was a reaction to decades of pervasive discrimination and segregation. Although the report is now 56 years old, it can not only tell us what happened in 1967, but what is happening now and how we might be able to navigate our way through today's controversy regarding race and discrimination. The event was sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center.
Website: https://jhfc.duke.edu
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/duke-university-john-hope-franklin-center
Instagram: instagram.com/jhfc_duke
Facebook: facebook.com/jhfcduke
X (Twitter): twitter.com/jhfcduke
