Lewis Pitts explains how the prosecuting attorney selected jurors for the State Trial for the November 3rd, 1979 shootings: From the News & Record article, Blame for shooting shared, report says: […] The all-white jury in the state criminal trial was caused by a “problematic jury selection process.” Before 1986, defense attorneys and prosecutors could […]
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[Video] Our Justice System
June 16th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: 11/03/79 · African American · CWP · excerpt · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · KKK · Lewis Pitts · Nazi · Obvious Reasons · State Trial · video
[Video] Sure We Paid, But We’ve Got Nothing To Apoligize For
June 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment
After the defendants in the shootings were twice acquitted in state and federal trials, a civil trial found that Klansmen, Nazis and members of the Greensboro Police Department were jointly liable for the wrongful death of one of the five CWP members killed. Instead of appealing the decision, the city of Greensboro decided to to […]
Tags: 11/03/79 · civil trial · excerpt · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · Jim Melvin · KKK · mayor · Nazi · Obvious Reasons · verdict · video
[Video] Death To The Klan, 11/3/79 Footage
May 21st, 2006 · 10 Comments
This is footage of the November 3rd, 1979 anti-Klan rally held in Greensboro, NC named, Death to The Klan. The organization that promoted and held the rally was named the Communist Workers Party (CWP). The people slowly rolling up in the cars are with KKK and Nazi groups from around NC, looking to confront the […]
Tags: 11/03/79 · 11/3/79 · Community · Death to the Klan · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · GTRC · KKK · Mourningside Homes · murder · Nazi · video
The GRTC: Taking Flak In The Homestretch
May 21st, 2006 · 16 Comments
With less than a week to go before releasing their findings, The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission is catching some more heat for their methodology… I think. Margaret Moffett Banks, News & Record TRC mum on report “Private meetings. Undisclosed sources. “No comments” to the media. The group investigating the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings has cloaked […]
Tags: blogging · Community · Ed Cone · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · GTRC · KKK · Nazi · strawman argument · The GTRC
So The Word “Communism” Had Nothing To Do With It?
May 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment
We killed ’em off overseas, and we did it again over here… Duke University News And Communications Duke Law Professor Looks Back on Greensboro Massacre […] “I still strongly feel that the Greensboro Police Department was just willing to let these two groups that they perceived as being on the radical fringes, at each end, […]
Tags: Carolyn McAllister · CWP · Duke · GPD · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · KKK · Nazi · Obvious Reasons · trial