As I suspected, people on the main board said they had no idea about this, even those who grew up in the city.
So, since I know some of you rarely venture the main board, here it is again.
Here is the main board link, there is further info there.
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=266525
* WARNING * These two videos are not particularly gory, but they DO SHOW MURDER, and the after math.
With the subject matter at hand, this may not be a, " At work " subject to deal with. You most likely will have a reaction. I am not trying to bring anyone down, but reality is. I post this to inform, and to remember. Some of you are old enough to remember things like this, many are not, and if their parents did not speak to such things, they may not be informed.
Peace All
Greensboro massacre
The Greensboro massacre occurred on November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. In the event, five marchers were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest. It was the culmination of attempts by the Communist Workers Party to organize industrial workers, predominantly black, in the area.[citation needed] The protestors killed were: Sandi Smith, a nurse and civil rights activist; Dr. James Waller, president of a local textile workers union who gave up his medical practice to defend workers; Bill Sampson, a Harvard University graduate in the school of divinity; Cesar Cause, an immigrant from Cuba who graduated magna cum laude from Duke University; and Dr. Michael Nathan, chief of pediatrics at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, NC, a clinic that helped children from low-income families.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre
The Greensboro Massacre 1979 - News Footage
[flash]http://www.youtube.com/v/hhd_3CLRQHs&hl=en[/flash]
This is the footage of a anti-klan rally held in Greensboro, NC back on November 3rd 1979 named, "Death to The Klan" The organization that held the rally was named The Communist Workers Party. The people driving up in the cars are with the KKK and local Nazi groups all from around NC to show up the Communist Workers Party. After watching this violent act keep in mind that the klan were all acquitted of murder due to self defense. That is what the defense in the State Trial based their case on. Does it look like they are deffending themselves or on the attack? What footage was the jury watching?
Remember The Day - Includes aftermath footage
[flash]http://www.youtube.com/v/mmxdC_peeV8&hl=en[/flash]
On Nov. 3, 1979 for the first time in US History the KKK and Nazi's (Aryan nations) attacked an Anti-Klan Rally in Greensboro,NC. Killing 5 and wounding 12. The vido shot was shown around the world, yet Greensboro has never come to terms with what happened in the city. Just this past year the First Truth and Reconciliation Commission, advised by Bp. Desmond TuTu complete it's work with a report to the City and the World. As News Photographer for WFMY-TV I shot the incident and served as The # 3 Witness in a state Multiple Murder Trial, A Federal Civil Rights Trial and a Major Federal Civil Suit Trial that finally resulted in a small victory.
Contact me for more information. You may also check on Amazon for books that have been written, such as the one by Signe Waller, one of the widows.
Sandra Smith
Sandra Neely was born Dec. 25, 1950, the daughter of a textile worker and a school teacher. Her father worked at JP Stevens until he was old and sick. He always had an outside job because there were "no inside jobs for the colored." It made her blood boil to think of that and she devoted her life to eliminating the exploitation faced by people like her father.
Sandi hated the racism of her home state of South Carolina and couldn't wait to move to Greensboro, NC. From afar, she eagerly followed the events in Greensboro, including the birth of the sit-in movement and the uprising of students at NC A&T University.
In 1969 Sandi enrolled in Bennett College planning to be a nurse, but she immediately headed for the movement center in Greensboro. She became a founding member of the Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU), a pan-Africanist group which later broadened its base from just students to become the Youth Organization for Black Unity (YOBU). Sandi became close with Nelson and Joyce Johnson , two of Greensboro's main revolutionary leaders and became a second mother to their two young daughters.
As a representative of SOBU, she was president of the Bennett student body for two years. When the governor of NC came up with a plan to "reorganize" the black colleges, which would actually destroy them, Sandi traveled with a delegation to Fayetteville State, another historically black school and left a lasting impression with her impassioned speech, "Y'all got to come out and fight this plan." In a time when most women were reserved, Sandi stood out for her outspoken strength.
Sandi became a community organizer for the Greensboro Association of Poor People (GAPP). Leaders in this group challenged her pan Africanism and insisted she devote her great energy to fighting against injustice in this country and not limit herself to supporting struggles in Africa. Leaders of African revolutionary movements who visited the US on speaking tours said the same things. As she had contact with white workers, Sandi concluded that white workers were not the source of exploitation of black people, but that the ruling class of monopoly capitalists was the source of exploitation. This caused Sandi to move toward Marxism. Sandi also found Marxism more conducive to her developing feminism.
She married Mark Smith, with whom she had organized a study group and who was going through political changes similar to hers. Sandi and Mark got jobs in a textile mill, Cone's Revolution plant, to put their beliefs into practice by integrating with the working class. Greensboro YOBU led a struggle in the national organization to move it toward Marxism, a struggle that affected the political life of thousands of black activists, It also opened the way, after a series of twists and turns, to building unity between black and white revolutionaries in NC.
The Workers Viewpoint Organization, later the Communist Workers Party, brought together revolutionaries of many nationalities and white and black groups in NC joined WVO. Sandi joined WVO and quickly took up work as an organizer in Cone Mills Revolution plant, a mill that had resisted four attempts at organization over 25 years.
To organize a union there, Sandi and others formed the Revolution Organizing Committee — the ROC — which built an underground crusade to unionize the plant. Fifty workers regularly met in secret for months and spread the word to over half the plant. The company tried but couldn't find out about this clandestine campaign. Finally it became necessary to go public. Sandi, who by now had been working there for three years, became chairperson of the ROC and found her true vocation.
She proved to be a gifted organizer of both black and white workers, especially talented at reaching out to women workers who suffered many outrages in the plant. Sandi led the unionization drive while spreading revolutionary ideas among the workers. She became a leader of workers throughout Cone Mills, leading the first workers demonstrations in front of Cone Mills Headquarters against the layoffs of hundreds of workers and for wage increases for all. Local unions at other Cone plants voted to support the drive at Revolution. Mass layoffs decimated the ROC, scaring away many workers and stalling the organizing. She became a leader in the movement to eliminate brown lung from the texrile mills.
Sandi's marriage fell apart but she continued struggling on another front. She became a leader in the fight to free the Wilmington 10, ten young activists jailed on false charges to stop them from organizing. Sandi was a leader of a spirited march of over 3,000 people in Raleigh, NC, which focused the growing movement to free the ten. She turned what would otherwise have been a silent march through Charlotte to free the Wilmington 10 and the Charlotte 3 (another falsely jailed group of young community leaders) into a mobile political education session. Defying leaders who tried to silence her, Sandi took a bullhorn and spoke to people the whole length of the march. She agitated for miles about the devastating effect of the KKK on children.
On November 3rd, 1979, Sandi was the first to comment on the unusual lack of police, saying, "It's weird, no cops here," minutes before a caravan of Klansmen and Nazis attacked the assembling marchers. The attack was aided by the absence of police in the area. In the terrifying confusion, Sandi gathered the children to safety. When she looked out from behind the wall to see if others were still in the line of fire she was killed instantly by a Klan bullet between the eyes.
by Paul C. Bermanzohn, MD
http://www.gjf.org/index.php?page=greensboro5
So, since I know some of you rarely venture the main board, here it is again.
Here is the main board link, there is further info there.
http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=266525
* WARNING * These two videos are not particularly gory, but they DO SHOW MURDER, and the after math.
With the subject matter at hand, this may not be a, " At work " subject to deal with. You most likely will have a reaction. I am not trying to bring anyone down, but reality is. I post this to inform, and to remember. Some of you are old enough to remember things like this, many are not, and if their parents did not speak to such things, they may not be informed.
Peace All
Greensboro massacre
The Greensboro massacre occurred on November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. In the event, five marchers were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest. It was the culmination of attempts by the Communist Workers Party to organize industrial workers, predominantly black, in the area.[citation needed] The protestors killed were: Sandi Smith, a nurse and civil rights activist; Dr. James Waller, president of a local textile workers union who gave up his medical practice to defend workers; Bill Sampson, a Harvard University graduate in the school of divinity; Cesar Cause, an immigrant from Cuba who graduated magna cum laude from Duke University; and Dr. Michael Nathan, chief of pediatrics at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, NC, a clinic that helped children from low-income families.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre
The Greensboro Massacre 1979 - News Footage
[flash]http://www.youtube.com/v/hhd_3CLRQHs&hl=en[/flash]
This is the footage of a anti-klan rally held in Greensboro, NC back on November 3rd 1979 named, "Death to The Klan" The organization that held the rally was named The Communist Workers Party. The people driving up in the cars are with the KKK and local Nazi groups all from around NC to show up the Communist Workers Party. After watching this violent act keep in mind that the klan were all acquitted of murder due to self defense. That is what the defense in the State Trial based their case on. Does it look like they are deffending themselves or on the attack? What footage was the jury watching?
Remember The Day - Includes aftermath footage
[flash]http://www.youtube.com/v/mmxdC_peeV8&hl=en[/flash]
On Nov. 3, 1979 for the first time in US History the KKK and Nazi's (Aryan nations) attacked an Anti-Klan Rally in Greensboro,NC. Killing 5 and wounding 12. The vido shot was shown around the world, yet Greensboro has never come to terms with what happened in the city. Just this past year the First Truth and Reconciliation Commission, advised by Bp. Desmond TuTu complete it's work with a report to the City and the World. As News Photographer for WFMY-TV I shot the incident and served as The # 3 Witness in a state Multiple Murder Trial, A Federal Civil Rights Trial and a Major Federal Civil Suit Trial that finally resulted in a small victory.
Contact me for more information. You may also check on Amazon for books that have been written, such as the one by Signe Waller, one of the widows.
Sandra Smith
Sandra Neely was born Dec. 25, 1950, the daughter of a textile worker and a school teacher. Her father worked at JP Stevens until he was old and sick. He always had an outside job because there were "no inside jobs for the colored." It made her blood boil to think of that and she devoted her life to eliminating the exploitation faced by people like her father.
Sandi hated the racism of her home state of South Carolina and couldn't wait to move to Greensboro, NC. From afar, she eagerly followed the events in Greensboro, including the birth of the sit-in movement and the uprising of students at NC A&T University.
In 1969 Sandi enrolled in Bennett College planning to be a nurse, but she immediately headed for the movement center in Greensboro. She became a founding member of the Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU), a pan-Africanist group which later broadened its base from just students to become the Youth Organization for Black Unity (YOBU). Sandi became close with Nelson and Joyce Johnson , two of Greensboro's main revolutionary leaders and became a second mother to their two young daughters.
As a representative of SOBU, she was president of the Bennett student body for two years. When the governor of NC came up with a plan to "reorganize" the black colleges, which would actually destroy them, Sandi traveled with a delegation to Fayetteville State, another historically black school and left a lasting impression with her impassioned speech, "Y'all got to come out and fight this plan." In a time when most women were reserved, Sandi stood out for her outspoken strength.
Sandi became a community organizer for the Greensboro Association of Poor People (GAPP). Leaders in this group challenged her pan Africanism and insisted she devote her great energy to fighting against injustice in this country and not limit herself to supporting struggles in Africa. Leaders of African revolutionary movements who visited the US on speaking tours said the same things. As she had contact with white workers, Sandi concluded that white workers were not the source of exploitation of black people, but that the ruling class of monopoly capitalists was the source of exploitation. This caused Sandi to move toward Marxism. Sandi also found Marxism more conducive to her developing feminism.
She married Mark Smith, with whom she had organized a study group and who was going through political changes similar to hers. Sandi and Mark got jobs in a textile mill, Cone's Revolution plant, to put their beliefs into practice by integrating with the working class. Greensboro YOBU led a struggle in the national organization to move it toward Marxism, a struggle that affected the political life of thousands of black activists, It also opened the way, after a series of twists and turns, to building unity between black and white revolutionaries in NC.
The Workers Viewpoint Organization, later the Communist Workers Party, brought together revolutionaries of many nationalities and white and black groups in NC joined WVO. Sandi joined WVO and quickly took up work as an organizer in Cone Mills Revolution plant, a mill that had resisted four attempts at organization over 25 years.
To organize a union there, Sandi and others formed the Revolution Organizing Committee — the ROC — which built an underground crusade to unionize the plant. Fifty workers regularly met in secret for months and spread the word to over half the plant. The company tried but couldn't find out about this clandestine campaign. Finally it became necessary to go public. Sandi, who by now had been working there for three years, became chairperson of the ROC and found her true vocation.
She proved to be a gifted organizer of both black and white workers, especially talented at reaching out to women workers who suffered many outrages in the plant. Sandi led the unionization drive while spreading revolutionary ideas among the workers. She became a leader of workers throughout Cone Mills, leading the first workers demonstrations in front of Cone Mills Headquarters against the layoffs of hundreds of workers and for wage increases for all. Local unions at other Cone plants voted to support the drive at Revolution. Mass layoffs decimated the ROC, scaring away many workers and stalling the organizing. She became a leader in the movement to eliminate brown lung from the texrile mills.
Sandi's marriage fell apart but she continued struggling on another front. She became a leader in the fight to free the Wilmington 10, ten young activists jailed on false charges to stop them from organizing. Sandi was a leader of a spirited march of over 3,000 people in Raleigh, NC, which focused the growing movement to free the ten. She turned what would otherwise have been a silent march through Charlotte to free the Wilmington 10 and the Charlotte 3 (another falsely jailed group of young community leaders) into a mobile political education session. Defying leaders who tried to silence her, Sandi took a bullhorn and spoke to people the whole length of the march. She agitated for miles about the devastating effect of the KKK on children.
On November 3rd, 1979, Sandi was the first to comment on the unusual lack of police, saying, "It's weird, no cops here," minutes before a caravan of Klansmen and Nazis attacked the assembling marchers. The attack was aided by the absence of police in the area. In the terrifying confusion, Sandi gathered the children to safety. When she looked out from behind the wall to see if others were still in the line of fire she was killed instantly by a Klan bullet between the eyes.
by Paul C. Bermanzohn, MD
http://www.gjf.org/index.php?page=greensboro5
