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“ONE SIDE, LADY—WE’RE LOOKING FOR A CONSPIRACY”
Fearing that leftist civil rights organizations, including local offices of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) had fomented riots during the summer of 1967, the Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations initiated hearings into the causes of the riots in Newark, New Jersey, and Detroit, Michigan. Herblock contrasts the determination of the investigators to blame agitators behind the racially motivated riots with the real poverty and inequality African Americans experienced in the slums.
“One Side, Lady—We're Looking for a Conspiracy”, 1967. Published in the Washington Post, November 1, 1967. |