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...birthplace of O. Henry and the home of several of the nation's largest textile mills. But Greensboro, N.C. (pop. 144,000), has also been the site of bitter racial conflict, dating back to sit-ins at lunch counters in the early 1960s and a riot in 1969 at a predominantly black local college that left one student dead. Nothing in Greensboro's past, however, came close to what happened last week: a Shootout between Ku Klux Klansmen and anti-Klan protesters in which four people were killed and nine were wounded. The city's mayor...
...central North Carolina because of aggressive activity by the Klan. The racist organization has recently been challenged by a dogmatic Maoist group, the Workers Viewpoint Organization. It has perhaps 200 members, most of them in Los Angeles and New York City but a dozen or so in the Greensboro and Durham areas. In July two of the leftists showed up at a Klan rally in tiny China Grove, N.C., where they banged on doors, burned a Confederate flag, and got into fistfights with Klansmen...
...Black Students Association (BSA) along with several other student organizations will sponsor a rally this Thursday in commemoration of the four anti-Klan demonstrators killed in Greensboro, N.C., last Saturday...
...This rally is a statement against the type of violence which occurred in Greensboro and that has been occurring in Boston," Eugene Green '80, president of BSA. said...
Nine other people were wounded in the shooting. Fourteen men were arraigned in Greensboro Monday in connection with the shooting...