Through Survivors' Eyes: From the Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre - Softcover

Sally Avery Bermanzohn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826514391 ISBN 13: 9780826514394

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Through Survivors' Eyes On the morning of November 3, 1979, a group of black and white demonstrators were preparing to march against the Ku Klux Klan through the streets of Greensboro, North Carolina, when a caravan of Klansmen and Nazis opened fire on them. Eighty-eight seconds later, five demonstrators lay dead and ten others were wounded. Four TV stations recorded their deaths by Klan gunfire. Yet, after two criminal ... Full description

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Product Description:

In passionate first-person accounts, this book tells the story of six remarkable people who set out to change the world. People who abandoned conventional lives to become civil rights activists and then revolutionaries and united against Klan/Nazi terror.

Review:

Not only sheds light on what survivors call the Greensboro Massacre, but also illuminates how 88 seconds of gunfire that shook a housing project 24 years ago echo to this day.
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

This is a riveting saga of political activism and the bonds of friendship that begins with the lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and black nationalism of the 1960s, deepens during the labor organizing and party-building of the 1970s, and persists even through more recent efforts to stem the rise of the Right. Its cautionary message about the horrifying consequences of police repression could not be more timely.
--Barbara Ellen Smith

About this edition

• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0826514391
• ISBN 13: 9780826514394
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400