Ex-Sen. Fred Harris, last surviving member of Kerner Commission, dies
Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris (D-Okla.), the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, a panel appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967 to examine the causes of the 1960s riots, died on Saturday. He was 94.
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Fred Harris once said, "The fundamental problem is that too few people have all the money and power, and everybody else has too little of either.”
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Fred Harris, a former Democratic U.S. senator from Oklahoma, is being remembered by party members for his commitment to social and economic justice
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He served on the Kerner Commission studying the explosive racial conditions of the United States in the 1960s, was shortlisted for a vice-presidential spot in 1968, briefly chaired the Democratic ...
Fred Harris, former Democratic senator from Oklahoma and presidential candidate, dies at 94
Okla., died Saturday at age 94, his wife said. Harris is remembered for championing Democratic Party reforms in the 1960s.
Fred Harris, former US senator from Oklahoma and presidential hopeful, dies at 94
Harris was a member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, the so-called Kerner Commission, appointed by then-President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the urban riots of the late ...
Fred R. Harris, Oklahoma Senator Who Ran for President, Dies at 94
After eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, he took a leftward turn toward “new populism” in a failed shot at the presidency in 1976.
Fred Harris, former Democratic U.S. senator and presidential candidate, dies at 94
It fell to Fred Harris, chair of the Democratic National Committee in 1969 and 1970, to help heal the party's wounds from the tumultuous national convention in 1968​ when protesters and police clashed in Chicago.
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Democratic Party members across the Southwest remembered Harris for his commitment to economic and social justice during the ...
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