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Greensboro massacre

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archives. --> The Greensboro massacre is the term for an event which took place on November 3, 1979, when members of the Communist Workers' Party and others demonstrated in a "Death to the Klan" march in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. [1]

112 relations: Acquittal, African Americans, All-white jury, Alma Adams, American Civil Liberties Union, American Nazi Party, Ana Mari Cauce, Anti-nuclear movement in the United States, Anti-war movement, Apartheid, Assassination, Benjamin Chavis, Bennett College, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Capitalism, China Grove, North Carolina, Christic Institute, City University of New York, Civil and political rights, Class conflict, COINTELPRO, Commemorative plaque, Commentary (magazine), Communism, Communist Party USA, Communist Workers' Party (United States), Cone Mills Corporation, Crush (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album), Cubans, D. W. Griffith, Daniel Sheehan (attorney), Democracy Now!, Desegregation, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Elizabeth McAlister, Emory University School of Law, Exploitation of labour, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Frank Collin, Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., Fred Hampton, Frontline (U.S. TV series), G. Flint Taylor, Gladys A. Robinson, Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Greensboro, North Carolina, Handgun, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, ..., Hispanic and Latino Americans, History (U.S. TV network), Institute for Southern Studies, James Reston Jr., John Locke Foundation, Karen Silkwood, Ku Klux Klan, Labor rights, Latin honors, Lincoln Community Health Center, List of truth and reconciliation commissions, Mao Zedong, Maoism, Mass shooting, Michael Parenti, Michio Kaku, Monthly Review, National Guard of the United States, Neo-Nazism, News & Record, North Carolina, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, Oppression, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, People's Law Office, Perjury, Philip Berrigan, Pistol, Public housing, Racial discrimination, Racism, Radical America, Ralph C. Johnson, Reconstruction era, Revolutionary Organization of Labor, Rifle, Ronald J. Bacigal, Shootout, Shotgun, South Africa, South Carolina, Southern United States, Soviet Union, The Birth of a Nation, The New York Times, Trade union, Truth and reconciliation commission, Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa), United Church of Christ, United Klans of America, United States, United States district court, University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development, University of Washington, Virgil Lee Griffin, White Americans, White supremacy, Wilmington Ten, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Wrongful death claim, Yvonne Johnson. Expand index (62 more) »

Acquittal

In common law jurisdictions, an acquittal certifies that the accused is free from the charge of an offense, as far as the criminal law is concerned.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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All-white jury

An all-white jury is a sworn body composed only of white people convened to render an impartial verdict in a legal proceeding.

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Alma Adams

Alma Shealey Adams (born May 27, 1946) is an American politician who represents North Carolina's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

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American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." Officially nonpartisan, the organization has been supported and criticized by liberal and conservative organizations alike.

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American Nazi Party

The American Nazi Party (ANP) is a far-right American political party founded by George Lincoln Rockwell with its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

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Ana Mari Cauce

Ana Mari Cauce (born January 11, 1956) is an American psychologist, college administrator and the 33rd and current president of the University of Washington.

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Anti-nuclear movement in the United States

The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than 80 anti-nuclear groups that oppose nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and/or uranium mining.

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Anti-war movement

An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Assassination

Assassination is the killing of a prominent person, either for political or religious reasons or for payment.

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Benjamin Chavis

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Bennett College

Bennett College is a private four-year historically black liberal arts college for women located in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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China Grove, North Carolina

China Grove is a city in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States.

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Christic Institute

The Christic Institute was a public interest law firm founded in 1980 by Daniel Sheehan, his wife Sara Nelson, and their partner, William J. Davis, a Jesuit priest, after the successful conclusion of their work on the ''Silkwood'' case.

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City University of New York

The City University of New York (CUNY) is the public university system of New York City, and the largest urban university system in the United States.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Class conflict

Class conflict, frequently referred to as class warfare or class struggle, is the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to competing socioeconomic interests and desires between people of different classes.

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COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO (Portmanteau derived from '''CO'''unter '''INTEL'''ligence PROgram) (1956-1971) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

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Commemorative plaque

A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, or in other places referred to as a historical marker or historic plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, typically attached to a wall, stone, or other vertical surface, and bearing text or an image in relief, or both, to commemorate one or more persons, an event, a former use of the place, or some other thing.

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Commentary (magazine)

Commentary is a monthly American magazine on religion, Judaism, and politics, as well as social and cultural issues.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is a communist political party in the United States established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America.

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Communist Workers' Party (United States)

The Communist Workers' Party (CWP) was a Maoist group in the United States.

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Cone Mills Corporation

Cone Mills Corporation was a world leader in textile manufacturing of corduroy, flannel, denim and other cotton fabrics for most of the 20th century.

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Crush (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album)

Crush is the sixth album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released in 1985.

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Cubans

Cubans or Cuban people (Cubanos) are the inhabitants or citizens of Cuba.

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D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American director, writer, and producer who pioneered modern cinematic techniques.

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Daniel Sheehan (attorney)

Daniel P. Sheehan is a Constitutional and public interest lawyer, public speaker, political activist and educator.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

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Desegregation

Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races.

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Duke University

Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina.

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Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Elizabeth McAlister

Elizabeth "Liz" McAlister (born November 17, 1939) is an American peace activist and former nun of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary.

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Emory University School of Law

Emory University School of Law (also known as Emory Law or ELS) is a graduate school of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Exploitation of labour

Exploitation of labour is the act of treating one's workers unfairly for one's own benefit.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Frank Collin

Francis Joseph "Frank" Collin (born November 3, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former political activist and Midwest coordinator with the National Socialist White People's Party.

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Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (born November 23, 1940, commonly known as Glenn Miller or Frazier Glenn Cross) is an American domestic terrorist and former leader of the defunct North Carolina-based White Patriot Party (formerly known as the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan).

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Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP.

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Frontline (U.S. TV series)

Frontline (styled by the program as FRONTLINE) is the flagship investigative journalism series of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), producing in-depth documentaries on a variety of domestic and international stories and issues, and broadcasting them on air and online.

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G. Flint Taylor

G.

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Gladys A. Robinson

Gladys Ashe Robinson (born November 17, 1949) is a health services executive and serves as a Democratic State Senator for the 28th district (parts of Guilford County, North Carolina) in the North Carolina General Assembly.

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Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission

The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established in 2004 based on the events of November 3, 1979.

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Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro (formerly Greensborough) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Handgun

A handgun is a short-barreled firearm designed to be fired with only one hand.

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Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and Spain.

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History (U.S. TV network)

History (originally The History Channel from 1995 to 2008) is a history-based digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and the Disney–ABC Television Group division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Institute for Southern Studies

The Institute for Southern Studies is a non-profit media and research center based in Durham, North Carolina that advocates for progressive political and social causes in the Southern United States.

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James Reston Jr.

James Reston, Jr. (born March 8, 1941) is an American author and playwright.

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John Locke Foundation

The John Locke Foundation (JLF) is a conservative think tank based in North Carolina.

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Karen Silkwood

Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for raising concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety of workers in a nuclear facility.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.

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Labor rights

Labor rights or workers' rights are a group of legal rights and claimed human rights having to do with labor relations between workers and their employers, usually obtained under labor and employment law.

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Latin honors

Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned.

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Lincoln Community Health Center

Lincoln Community Health Center (LCHC) is an outpatient primary care facility located in Durham, North Carolina that replaced Lincoln Hospital in 1968.

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List of truth and reconciliation commissions

A truth commission or truth and reconciliation commission is a commission tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state actors also), in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

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Maoism

Maoism, known in China as Mao Zedong Thought, is a political theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong, whose followers are known as Maoists.

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Mass shooting

A mass shooting is an incident involving multiple victims of firearms-related violence.

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Michael Parenti

Michael John Parenti (born 1933) is an American political scientist and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects.

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Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku (born 24 January 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science.

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Monthly Review

The Monthly Review, established in 1949, is an independent socialist magazine published monthly in New York City.

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National Guard of the United States

The National Guard of the United States, part of the reserve components of the United States Armed Forces, is a reserve military force, composed of National Guard military members or units of each state and the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, for a total of 54 separate organizations.

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Neo-Nazism

Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II militant social or political movements seeking to revive and implement the ideology of Nazism.

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News & Record

The News & Record is the largest newspaper serving Guilford County, North Carolina, and the surrounding region.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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North Carolina A&T State University

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (also known as North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina A&T, N.C. A&T, or simply A&T) is a public, coeducational, historically black, research university located in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

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North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources

The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources is a cabinet-level department within the state government of North Carolina dedicated to overseeing projects in the arts, culture, and history within the borders of the state.

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Oppression

Oppression can refer to an authoritarian regime controlling its citizens via state control of politics, the monetary system, media, and the military; denying people any meaningful human or civil rights; and terrorizing the populace through harsh, unjust punishment, and a hidden network of obsequious informants reporting to a vicious secret police force.

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic music band formed in Wirral, Merseyside in 1978.

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People's Law Office

People's Law Office (PLO) is a law office in Chicago, Illinois, which focuses on public interest law, representing clients believed to have been the subject of attacks by governmental officials and agencies.

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Perjury

Perjury is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters a generation material to an official proceeding.

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Philip Berrigan

Philip Francis Berrigan (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an American peace activist and Roman Catholic priest.

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Pistol

A pistol is a type of handgun.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.

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Racial discrimination

Racial discrimination refers to discrimination against individuals on the basis of their race.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Radical America

Radical America was a left wing political magazine in the United States established in 1967.

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Ralph C. Johnson

Ralph C. Johnson (December 17, 1953 – March 15, 2016) was an American politician and businessman.

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.

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Revolutionary Organization of Labor

The Revolutionary Organization of Labor, formerly known as the Ray O. Light Group, is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist 1961 splinter group from the Communist Party USA.

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Rifle

A rifle is a portable long-barrelled firearm designed for precision shooting, to be held with both hands and braced against the shoulder for stability during firing, and with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the bore walls.

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Ronald J. Bacigal

Ronald J. Bacigal is a professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law.

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Shootout

A shootout, also called a firefight or gunfight, is a gun battle between armed groups.

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Shotgun

A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation (originally called The Clansman) is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed and co-produced by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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Truth and reconciliation commission

A truth commission or truth and reconciliation commission is a commission tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state actors also), in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past.

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa after the end of apartheid.

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United Church of Christ

The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical confessional roots in the Reformed, Lutheran, Congregational and evangelical Protestant traditions, and "with over 5,000 churches and nearly one million members".

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United Klans of America

The United Klans of America Inc. (UKA), based in Alabama, was one of the largest Ku Klux Klan organizations in the United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States district court

The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system.

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University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development

The College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) is one of seventeen colleges and professional schools at the University of Minnesota.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (commonly referred to as UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.

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Virgil Lee Griffin

Virgil Lee Griffin (c. 1944 – February 11, 2009) was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan who was involved in a 1979 violent clash with Communist party organizers in North Carolina.

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White Americans

White Americans are Americans who are descendants from any of the white racial groups of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, or in census statistics, those who self-report as white based on having majority-white ancestry.

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White supremacy

White supremacy or white supremacism is a racist ideology based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races and that therefore white people should be dominant over other races.

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Wilmington Ten

The Wilmington Ten were nine young men and a woman, who were wrongfully convicted in 1971 in Wilmington, North Carolina of arson and conspiracy.

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Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Winston-Salem is a city in and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. With a 2015 estimated population of 241,218, it is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and the 5th-most populous city in North Carolina, and the 89th-most populous city in the United States. Winston-Salem is home to the tallest office building in the region, 100 North Main Street, formerly the Wachovia Building and now known locally as the Wells Fargo Center. Winston-Salem is called the "Twin City" for its dual heritage and "City of the Arts and Innovation" for its dedication to fine arts and theater and technological research. "Camel City" is a reference to the city's historic involvement in the tobacco industry related to locally based R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Camel cigarettes. Many locals refer to the city as "Winston" in informal speech. Another nickname, "the Dash," comes from the (-) in the city's name, although technically it is a hyphen, not a dash; this nickname is only used by the local minor league baseball team, the Winston-Salem Dash. In 2012, the city was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the U.S. by CBS MoneyWatch.

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Wrongful death claim

Wrongful death is a claim against a person who can be held liable for a death.

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Yvonne Johnson

Yvonne Johnson was the mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina from 2007 until 2009.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre

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