Greensboro massacre

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The Greensboro massacre was a deadly confrontation that occurred on November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, when members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) shot and killed five demonstrators in a "Death to the Klan" march organized by the Communist Workers Party (CWP). The incident was preceded by inflammatory rhetoric and threats of violence, and marked a convergence of the KKK and American neo-Nazi movements, which had previously operated separately. It was later revealed that undercover law enforcement agents had infiltrated both movements and participated in planning the actions that day. Of the five people killed, four were CWP members, and one was married to a CWP member. The victims were activists involved in racial justice efforts and in unionizing textile industry and hospital workers in the area. In addition, nine other anti-Klan demonstrators, two journalists, and a Klansman were wounded. In the ensuing criminal trials, the KKK and...

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