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Civil Rights–Era Shooting Conspiracies Still Echo in Today’s Politics

Civil Rights–Era Shooting Conspiracies Still Echo in Today’s Politics

A Commentary in The Conversation traces how conspiracy narratives that followed a civil rights shooting 60 years ago resonate in contemporary resistance to racial equality. It links segregationist rhetoric to modern political discourse.

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Conspiracy theories that emerged from a civil rights shooting 60 years ago resonate today