governor george romney, the father of mitt romney, ordered the michigan army national guard into detroitand president lyndon b. johnson sent in both the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions. amy: at the height of the detroit rebellion on july 28, 1967, president johnson appointed a national advisory commission on civil disorders to investigate the root causes of the unrest. the final report, known as the kerner commission, famously concluded that the united states was "moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal." the rebellions reshaped both newark and detroit and marked the beginning of an era of african-america political empowerment. three years later in 1970, newark elected its first black mayor, kenneth gibson. then in 1974, coleman young became the first black mayor of detroit. today the mayor of newark is ras baraka, the son of the famed poet and writer amiri baraka who was arrested during the 1967 newark rebellion. this is the late amiri baraka and the documentary "revolution 67, speaking about what happened to him during the unrest 50 years ago. sudden