Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States

by Lisa Magarrell and Joya Wesley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221133
• ISBN13: 9780812221138
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"