Editing Greensboro, North Carolina (section)

===Greensboro massacre===
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[[File:Greensboro massacre march.jpg|thumb|Greensboro massacre march]]
On November 3, 1979, members of what would become the [[Communist Workers' Party (United States)|Communist Workers Party (CWP)]] held an anti-[[Ku Klux Klan]] rally at the Morningside Homes public housing project.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/04/archives/four-shot-to-death-at-antiklan-march-ambush-at-a-north-carolina.html|title=Four Shot to Death at Anti-Klan March|last=Stites|first=Tom|date=November 4, 1979 |newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=March 29, 2019 |language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Four local TV news stations covered it. During the protest, two cars containing Klansmen and neo-Nazis arrived.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the-greensboro-massacre-of-1979-explained |title=This 1979 Massacre by the KKK Should Be Taught in Schools|last=Ginsburg |first=Eric |website=Teen Vogue |language=en|access-date=March 29, 2019 |date=May 18, 2018}}</ref> After a confrontation, the KKK and CWP groups exchanged gunfire. Five CWP members were killed. Eleven CWP members and one Klansman were injured.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.uncg.edu/dp/crg/topicalessays/GreensMassacre.aspx |title=Civil Rights Greensboro |publisher=Library.uncg.edu |access-date=August 11, 2012 |archive-date=August 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826072733/http://library.uncg.edu/dp/crg/topicalessays/GreensMassacre.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Television footage of the actions was shown worldwide, and the event became known as the [[Greensboro massacre]]. In November 1980, six KKK defendants were acquitted in a state criminal trial by an all-white jury after a week of deliberation. Families of those killed and injured in the attack filed a civil suit against the city and police department for failure to protect citizens. In 1985, a jury in this case found five police officers and two other individuals liable for $350,000 in damages; the monies were to be paid to the Greensboro Justice Fund, established to advance civil rights.