Nov. 3, 1979: Greensboro Massacre
Five people were killed when the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis fired on an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Viola Liuzzo Murdered by KKK After Selma to Montgomery March
Viola Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965), Civil Rights activist, was murdered in 1965 by the KKK after the Selma to Montgomery March.
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July 12, 1964: Henry Dee and Charles Moore Case
The bodies of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, were found in the Mississippi River. They had been tortured and murdered by the Klan two months earlier.
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July 11, 1964: Lemuel Penn Killed
Athens-area Ku Klux Klan members shot and killed WWII veteran and DCPS assistant superintendent Lemuel Penn.
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