Nearly 41 years later, council to consider formal apology for Greensboro Massacre
GREENSBORO — Nearly 41 years after five demonstrators were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party, the City Council will consider a formal resolution of apology and dedicate a scholarship in memory of the victims of what is known as the Greensboro Massacre.
If the resolution is approved at council's next meeting on Tuesday, the city would admit the police department neglected to act on knowledge it had that the Nazis and Klan were planning violence in a low-income housing community during a "Death to the Klan" rally on Nov. 3, 1979, organized by members of the Communist Workers Party.
The resulting violence would leave an emotional scar that for many, particularly African Americans, has never healed.
The resolution, in the works since last December, began when the Greensboro Pulpit Forum — a coalition of faith and civil rights leaders — contacted every City Council member to request the apology in the weeks following the 40th anniversary of the massacre, Mayor Nancy Vaughan said Friday.
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