Qualla: Greensboro Massacre https://qualla.com/greensboro-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/m/greensboro-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Greensboro Massacre https://qualla.com/greensboro-massacre Greensboro Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/greensboro-massacre/ Photo credit The Romero Institute, CC BY-SA 3.0. Four television news crews were already rolling tape when the caravan arrived. It was November 3, 1979, a Saturday morning in Greensboro, North Carolina, and members of the Communist Workers Party had gathered at the corner of Everitt and Carver Streets in Morningside Homes, a public housing project, to begin their "Death to the Klan" march. The cameras were there because the CWP had publicized the event aggressively, with flyers calling for radical opposition to the Ku Klux Klan. What the cameras recorded, starting at approximately 11:20 a.m., was not a protest march. It was eighty-eight seconds of gunfire that left five people dead on the pavement, broadcast that evening on national and international news.

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/m/greensboro-massacre-wp/dnrm-greensboro-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Greensboro Massacre: Organizers in the Mill Towns https://qualla.com/greensboro-massacre/ Photo credit The Romero Institute, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Communist Workers Party had its roots in a 1973 New York Marxist formation called the Workers Viewpoint Organization. In 1976, WVO members came to North Carolina and began recruiting Black and white activists in Greensboro and Durham who were already engaged in healthcare and...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/m/greensboro-massacre-wp/dnrm-greensboro-massacre-organizers-in-the-mill-towns.mp3 0:06 2 full Greensboro Massacre: Informants on Both Sides https://qualla.com/greensboro-massacre/ Photo credit The Romero Institute, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Greensboro Police Department had an informant inside the Klan and Nazi group: Eddie Dawson, a Klansman who had previously been on the FBI payroll. Police provided Dawson with a copy of the march permit, including the unpublished starting location. The federal Bureau of Alcoho...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/m/greensboro-massacre-wp/dnrm-greensboro-massacre-informants-on-both-sides.mp3 0:06 3 full Greensboro Massacre: Eighty-Eight Seconds https://qualla.com/greensboro-massacre/ Photo credit The Romero Institute, CC BY-SA 3.0. The caravan of nine cars and a van, carrying an estimated forty Klansmen and American Nazi Party members, drove past the front of the housing project. The two groups heckled each other. Some marchers struck the cars with picket sticks. Then the first shot came from the lead car -...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/m/greensboro-massacre-wp/dnrm-greensboro-massacre-eighty-eight-seconds.mp3 0:06 4 full Greensboro Massacre: Three Trials, No Convictions https://qualla.com/greensboro-massacre/ Photo credit The Romero Institute, CC BY-SA 3.0. What followed the massacre was a legal odyssey that compounded the outrage. In the first state criminal trial, six Klansmen and Nazis were charged with murder. An all-white jury acquitted all of them, accepting claims of self-defense despite the filmed evidence. A second federal ...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/r/m/greensboro-massacre-wp/dnrm-greensboro-massacre-three-trials-no-convictions.mp3 0:06 5 full Greensboro Massacre: The Long Road to Acknowledgment https://qualla.com/greensboro-massacre/ Photo credit The Romero Institute, CC BY-SA 3.0. Twenty-five years after the shootings, a privately formed Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- modeled on South Africa's post-apartheid process -- conducted an investigation. Its final report concluded that both sides had used inflammatory rhetoric, but that the Klan...

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