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learning from greensboro truth and reconciliation in the united states
p on november 3 1979 in the morningside neighborhood of greensboro north carolina a caravan of ku klux klan and nazi party members arrived on the scene of an anti klan protest . after a scuffle some of the klan and nazis opened fire on the mostly unarmed racially mixed gathering of political activists labor organizers and children . while news cameras filmed five protesters were killed and ten were wounded . police officers were notably absent at the time of the attack . state and federal criminal trials resulted in acquittals of the shooters by all white juries . br the city of greensboro consistently denied any responsibility for the events . in 2001 greensboro took its first groundbreaking steps toward confronting the past through an independent truth and reconciliation commission . inspired by south africas efforts to tackle injustice and seek reconciliation on a larger scale greensboro explicitly and controversially connected its experience to other contexts of injustice and launched a novel undertaking for a u.s. community . br learning from greensboro provides an insiders look at the truth and reconciliation process including how it worked the challenges it faced and the local context in which it existed . the book offers valuable practical insights into the process of truth telling and gives testimony to the possibility that denial indifference and hidden histories can be made to yield to a deeper and lasting justice .
hardcover university of pennsylvania press 2008 isbn13 9780812241105 isbn10 081224110x
abridged n isbn 13 9780812241105 number in series 1 number of pages 278 publisher univ of pennsylvania pr release date 62135769600000 series title pennsylvania studies in human rights