On the morning of November 3, 1979, a group of black and white
demonstrators were preparing to march against the Ku Klux Klan
through the streets of Greensboro, North Carolina, when a caravan
of Klansmen and Nazis opened fire on them. Eighty-eight seconds
later, five demonstrators lay dead and ten others were wounded.
Four TV stations recorded their deaths by Klan gunfire. Yet, after
two criminal trials, not a single gunman spent a day in prison.
Despite this outrage, the survivors won an unprecedented
civil-court victory in 1985 when a North Carolina jury held the
Greensboro police jointly liable with the KKK for wrongful death.
In passionate first-person accounts, Through Survivors' Eyes tells
the story of six remarkable people who set out to change the world.
The survivors came of age as the "protest generation," joining the
social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. They marched for civil
rights, against war, for textile and healthcare workers, and for
black power and women's liberation. As the mass mobilizations waned
in the mid-1970s, they searched for a way to continue their
activism, studied Marxism, and became communists.
Nelson Johnson, who grew up on a farm in eastern North Carolina in
a family proud of its African American heritage, settled in
Greensboro in the 1960s and became a leader of the Black Liberation
Movement and a decade later the founder of the Faith Community
Church. Willena Cannon, the daughter of black sharecroppers,
witnessed a KKK murder as a child and was spurred to a life of
activism. Her son, Kwame Cannon, was only ten when he saw the
Greensboro killings. Marty Nathan, who grew up the daughter of a
Midwestern union organizer and came to the South to attend medical
school, lost her husband to the Klan/Nazi gunfire. Paul Bermanzohn,
the son of Jewish Holocaust survivors, was permanently injured
during the shootings. Sally Bermanzohn, a child of the New York
suburbs who came south to join the Civil Rights Movement, watched
in horror as her friends were killed and her husband was wounded.
Through Survivors' Eyes is the story of people who abandoned
conventional lives to become civil rights activists and then
revolutionaries. It is about blacks and whites who united against
Klan/Nazi terror, and then had to overcome unbearable hardship, and
persist in seeking justice. It is also a story of one divided
southern community, from the protests of black college students of
the late 1960s to the convening this January of a Truth and
Community Reconciliation Project (on the South African model)
intended to reassess the Massacre.
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