Fred R. Harris, Oklahoma senator on Kerner Commission, dies at 94
Briefly

"From a hardscrabble upbringing as the son of a migrant farmer, Mr. Harris worked his way through college and finished law school at the University of Oklahoma."
"Harris was once considered a bright young face of the Democratic Party. He served on the Kerner Commission studying the explosive racial conditions of the United States in the 1960s."
Read at Washington Post
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