Can Greensboro Model a National Truth and Reconciliation Process? | Sojourners

Can Greensboro Model a National Truth and Reconciliation Process?

After 41 years, Greensboro has apologized for a dark day in 1979 when police allowed Klan members and neo-Nazis to kill local activists.
During a hearing of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, empty seats commemorate the five activists killed on Nov. 3, 1979. Photo: RobinAKirk / CC BY 2.0

On Oct. 6, 2020,  the Greensboro City Council adopted a resolution of apology acknowledging that the 1979 Greensboro police department “failed to warn the marchers of their extensive foreknowledge of the racist, violent attack planned against the marchers by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party with the assistance of a paid GPD informant.”

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