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Memories of Morningside: Decades later, deadly clash in Greensboro community still resonates
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Memories of Morningside: Decades later, deadly clash in Greensboro community still resonates
- Kenwyn Caranna
- Dec 6, 2020
- Dec 6, 2020
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Erica Parker stands near the Greensboro Massacre historical marker on Nov. 5. Parker, who was 7 years old at the time, lived in the neighborhood where on Nov. 3, 1979, members of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party clashed with protesters gathered for a march organized by the militant leftist Workers Viewpoint Organization. Five people at the “Death to the Klan” rally were fatally shot and 10 others were injured.
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Ossie Ruth Beasley, who died Oct. 25, 2024, talks about the morning of the Greensboro Massacre, also known as the Klan-Nazi shootings, on Nov. 3, 1979. Beasley was president of the residents' council at Morningside Homes, the community where the shootings occurred. Five people died and 10 were injured.
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Bessie Ruth Beasley was the president of the residents’ association at Greensboro’s first public housing project, Morningside Homes, where what's now known as the Greensboro Massacre took place. She says the city of Greensboro's recent apology to the residents was much needed. "I was afraid that some of those children were really scarred for life," she says.
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Timeline of events of the Greensboro Massacre, commonly known as the Klan-Nazi shootout, on Nov. 3, 1979.
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File photo -- Dominique Moon walks by the corner of Bingham and Carver Streets in the Morningside Homes public housing complex as the sun sets on laundry hung out to dry in the foreground. The entire housing complex was replaced with a new $76 million project, Willow Oaks.
Kim Walker, News & Record file
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The Willow Oaks neighborhood, shown here June 20, 2005, replaced the old Morningside Homes public housing. Morningside was demolished in 2001.
JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ, NEWS & RECORD FILE
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A grave marker in Maplewood Cemetery behind the old Morningside Homes housing project commemorates the five protesters killed in 1979.
H. SCOTT HOFFMANN/News & Record file
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Photos: A look back at the 1979 Greensboro Massacre 40 years later
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Greensboro police officer Mike Toons, center, takes handcuffs from an officer with a gun on Nov. 3, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting headlines
National newspaper headlines on the day of Nov. 4, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
KKK members take weapons from the back of a car prior to the shooting between them and members of the Workers Viewpoint Organization/Communist Workers Party on Nov. 3, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shootings 1979
A member of the Workers Viewpoint Organization, which became the Community Workers Party, kneels beside dead friend in aftermath of shooting on Nov. 3, 1979.
News & Record
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
A victim of a shootout between the Workers Viewpoint Organization (which became the Community Workers Party) and the KKK lies on the ground in Greensboro, N.C., Nov. 3, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Workers Viewpoint Organization member Nelson Johnson kneels by a victim in the aftermath of the shooting on Nov. 3, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Ambulance and police work on a dead Workers Viewpoint Organization member on Nov. 3, 1979. The Workers Viewpoint Organization changed its name to the Communist Workers Party.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Conrad Powell comforts his wife Frankie Powell after the Klan-Nazi shootings on Nov. 3, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
A body lies on the ground at the former Morningside Homes in Greensboro, N.C., after the Klan-Nazi shootings on Nov. 3, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
A police officer guards a Klansman in custody on Nov. 4, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Suspects at Guilford County Jail (left to right) Michael Eugene Clinton, Rayford Milano Caudle, Lee Joseph McClain, David Wayne Matthews and Roland Wayne Wood on Nov. 3, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Joyce Johnson, Sally Bermanzohn and Nelson Johnson at a press conference on Nov. 4, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Greensboro Police Chief William E. Swing addresses participants during a news conference on Nov. 4, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Greensboro Police Chief William E. Swing speaks at a news conference regarding the Klan-Nazi shootings on Nov. 10, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Suspects Johnny Pridmore and Jerry Smith are led to a courtroom in the Guilford County Courthouse on Nov. 6, 1979.
News & Record
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
People display a cloth sign during a funeral march to Maplewood Cemetery in Greensboro, N.C., on Nov. 11, 1979.
News & Record file photo
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Communists Workers Party member Signe Waller (in flop hat) stands between national guardsmen and her husband's casket on East Market Street during a march to Maplewood Cemetery in Greensboro, N.C. on Nov. 11, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
A sign posted in a parking lot on East Market Street in Greensboro, N.C. during a funeral march on Nov. 11, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Signe Waller leads a funeral march to Maplewood Cemetery in Greensboro, N.C. on Nov. 11, 1979.
News & Record file photo
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Photo taken during a march to Maplewood Cemetery in Greensboro, N.C., on Nov. 11, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
People participate in a funeral march to Maplewood Cemetery on Nov. 11, 1979 in Greensboro, N.C.
News & Record
Klan-Nazi shooting 1979
Greensboro Police Officer C.F. Brande keeps an eye on weapons confiscated from the Nazi-Klan shootout, on Nov. 14, 1979.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting/KKK trial verdict 1980
Dean Masson of Guilford College stands in front of the old federal building during demonstrations after the KKK trial verdict was announced, Nov. 18, 1980.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1980
Joe Long of Colfax, home on leave from the U.S. Navy, has a one man demonstration against the Communist Workers Party on Aug. 4, 1980.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1981
Photo taken Oct. 22, 1981 at Maplewood Cemetery in Greensboro, N.C.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting 1983
Hal Sieber addresses crowd at showing of PBS program on the Klan-Nazi shooting, on Jan. 25, 1983.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting/trial 1984
People march in Greensboro, N.C. to protest the April 15 verdict in the federal Klan-Nazi trial on May 4, 1984.
News & Record file
Klan-Nazi shooting/trial 1984
People march in downtown Greensboro to protest the April 15 verdict in the federal Klan-Nazi trial on May 4, 1984.
News & Record file
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Timeline
Some of the key events surrounding the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings.
Late 1970s: Marxists recruit in the working-class Black communities of Greensboro and organize labor unions at Cone Mill plants.
1979: Textile union decertifies and seizes control of locals organized by Communists.
September 1979: At a Nazi and Klan rally in Louisburg near Raleigh, an alliance is formed between the national Socialist Party of America, a neo-Nazi organization, and the Invisible Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Oct. 10, 1979: Nelson Johnson applies to Greensboro police for a parade permit for a Nov. 3 "Death to the Klan" march through several public housing neighborhoods. Police informer Eddie Dawson, a longtime Klansman, obtains a copy of the parade permit detailing the route. Dawson pastes over the flyers his own posters, depicting a man hanging from a tree, that read: "NOTICE to the Traitors, Communists, Race Mixers and Black Rioters. Even now the cross-hairs are on the back of YOUR necks. It's time for old-fashioned American Justice."
Nov. 3, 1979: Members of the Klan, Communist Workers Party and neo-Nazis clash at the former Morningside Homes at a "Death to the Klan" march. Five are killed and 10 injured.
Aug. 4, 1980: Criminal trial of 14 Klan and Nazi members begins in Guilford County Superior Court. Six face first-degree murder charges.
Nov. 17, 1980: Trial ends with not guilty verdicts on all counts.
Jan. 9, 1984: Criminal trial in federal court in Winston-Salem begins for nine people involved in the shootings.
April 15, 1984: Federal trial ends with not guilty verdicts.
March 11, 1985: Federal civil trial begins in Winston-Salem.
June 7, 1985: The jury awards nearly $400,000 in damages after finding two police officers and six Klansmen and Nazis liable for the wrongful death of one, and for assault and battery on two survivors*
Nov. 6, 1985: The city of Greensboro settles for $351,000 to the estate of Michael Nathan, one of the men killed*
2001: Morningside Homes demolished to make room for houses, townhomes and apartments.
January 2003: Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project announces plans to revisit the events of Nov. 3, 1979.
May 2004: The Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project names the seven-member panel of the Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission that would review documents and hear testimony in the 1979 shootings.
August 2006: Official grand opening of Willow Oaks, a mixed development of houses, townhomes and apartments, at former Morningside Homes.
May 26, 2006: The Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation Commission releases its 400-page report on the shootings after a two-year investigation.
March 6, 2007: City Council votes 5-4 to oppose a resolution that would have the board "seriously consider" the recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
May 2008: The Greensboro Police Department says an internal investigation concluded that no evidence related to the shootings had been destroyed as was alleged in a complaint.
June 16, 2009: City Council votes 5-4 to approve a statement of regret about the shootings — one of the recommendations the city Human Relations Commission made after studying the shootings and the 2006 Truth and Reconciliation Commission report.
December 2014: The N.C. Highway Historical Marker Advisory Committee unanimously approves a historical marker.
Oct. 6, 2020: The Greensboro City Council issues a resolution of apology for the events now known as the “November 3, 1979 Massacre.”
*Source: Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Source: News & Record archives
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