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Forty years later, the tragedy of the Greensboro Massacre still hurts for some
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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.
'We knew people were dead'
Forty years later, the tragedy of the Greensboro Massacre still hurts for some
- Nancy McLaughlin
- Nov 2, 2019
- Nov 2, 2019
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Each of the five people who were killed in the Nov. 3, 1979, shootout is represented by their photograph and a white rose during the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation hearings at N.C. A&T on Aug. 5, 2005.
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GREENSBORO — In one of those Morningside Homes apartments near Everett and Jennifer streets, the Saturday morning ritual of cereal and cartoons was well underway for 15-year-old Candy Clapp and her siblings.
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Five anti-Klan marchers were killed and 10 others wounded during the Greensboro Massacre on Nov. 3, 1979. Many years later, the Greensboro Tru…
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A funeral procession of slain Communist Workers Party members makes its way to Maplewood Cemetery on Nov. 11, 1979.
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TRC SATURDAY (copy)
Signe Waller stops to smell a white rose that had been placed in an empty seat to honor her husband, James, after the second day of the Greens…
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Klan Nazi shootings in Greensboro in 1979 (copy) (copy)
In its report, the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission said there was shared blame for the violence, including the Communist Worker…
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Each of the five people who were killed in the Nov. 3, 1979, shootout is represented by their photograph and a white rose during the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation hearings at N.C. A&T on Aug. 5, 2005.
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Five anti-Klan marchers were killed and 10 others wounded during the Greensboro Massacre on Nov. 3, 1979. Many years later, the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report said there was shared blame for the violence, including the Communist Workers Party’s goading of the Klan, but that the single pivotal piece was the absence of police.
- Jim Stratford/News & Record
A funeral procession of slain Communist Workers Party members makes its way to Maplewood Cemetery on Nov. 11, 1979.
- Jim Stratford
Signe Waller stops to smell a white rose that had been placed in an empty seat to honor her husband, James, after the second day of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in July 2005.
- Kim Walker
In its report, the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission said there was shared blame for the violence, including the Communist Workers Party’s goading of the Klan, but that the single pivotal piece was the absence of police when the first shots rang out.
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