FACT CHECK · US POLITICS AND THE 2026 MIDTERMS
Claim: Civil rights cost $3B in damage
MISLEADINGTHE ANSWER
The big losses came from the 1964-68 urban riots: Watts 1965 about $40M, Detroit 1967 up to $132M, DC 1968 about $15M (then-dollars), not the marches.
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- “Watts riots damage”
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