Members of The Commission
- Otto Kerner, Governor of Illinois and chair
- John Lindsay, Mayor of New York and vice chairman
- Edward Brooke, Senator (R-MA)
- Fred R. Harris, Senator (D-OK)
- James Corman, Congressman (D-CA)
- William McCulloch, Congressman (R-OH)
- Charles Thornton, Founder of defense contractor Litton Industries
- Roy Wilkins, Executive Director of the NAACP
- I.W. Abel, President of US Steelworkers of American
- Herbert Turner Jenkins, Police chief, Atlanta, Georgia
- Katherine Graham Peden, Commissioner of Commerce, Kentucky
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