Word: klansmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 10,000 members, according to estimates by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and other experts on the K.K.K. But after a decade of dormancy, the Klan in the past year has grown steadily more belligerent and violent. Two weeks ago, Klansmen and their sympathizers attacked an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, N.C., shooting to death four white men and a black woman, all of them members of the Communist Workers Party, formerly known as the Workers Viewpoint Organization...
Last month Viewpoint members passed out handbills inviting people to a "Death to the Klan" protest march on Saturday, Nov. 3, in a mostly black section of the city. The Maoist group urged the Klansmen to attend. Taunted March Organizer Paul Bermanzohn: "We invite you and your two-bit punks to come out and face the wrath of the people." The handbill described the Klan as "the most treacherous scum element produced by the dying system of capitalism...
...gathered for the anti-Klan march among the grimy brick duplexes in Greensboro's Morningside Manor housing project. Most of the demonstrators were dressed in jeans and blue work shirts; some wore hard hats. Suddenly a mustard-colored van and several cars pulled up. They were filled with Klansmen and supporters who shouted racial slurs. The marchers responded by beating on the cars with sticks...
...face caked with blood, told how a woman died in her arms. Said Burton: "The first thing that happened, I saw this Klansman waving his gun. The next thing we knew, there was shooting all over the place." According to eyewitnesses, some of the demonstrators fired back at the Klansmen with handguns...
...could," insisted Police Chief William Swing in response to mounting criticism. "Until we saw weapons, no laws had been violated." All of the dead were anti-Klan demonstrators: Sandra Smith of Piedmont, S.C., and Caesar Cauce, William Samson and Jim Waller, residents of Greensboro. Wounded were two Klansmen and eight demonstrators, including Bermanzohn. Police arrested 14 people, including two marchers and twelve Klansmen. The Klan members were charged with murder. One demonstrator was charged with inciting to riot, the other with interfering with an officer...