Title: Learning from Greensboro
First published: 2008
Description: "On November 3,1979, in the Morningside neighborhood of Greensboro, North Carolina, a caravan of Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party members arrived on the scene of an anti-Klan protest. After a scuffle, some of the Klan and Nazis opened fire on the mostly unarmed, racially mixed gathering of political activists, labor organizers, and children. While news cameras filmed, five protesters were killed and ten were wounded. Police officers were notably absent at the time of the attack. State and federal criminal trials resulted in acquittals of the shooters by all-white juries." "Learning from Greensboro provides an insider's look at the truth and reconciliation process, including how it worked, the challenges it faced, and the local context in which it existed. The book offers valuable practical insights into the process of truth-telling and gives testimony to the possibility that denial, indifference, and hidden histories can be made to yield to a deeper and lasting justice."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Human rights, Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Massacres, Nazis, Race relations, Riots, Truth commissions, Ku klux klan (1915-), Human rights, united states, Riots, united states, National socialism, North carolina, social conditions, United states, race relations
Places: Greensboro, Greensboro (N.C.), North Carolina
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: JC599.U52 .G74 2008