'This is What We Support': Nearly 41 Years Later, City Apologizes for Greensboro Massacre

The Greensboro Police Department knew through informants that the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party planned to attack a 1979 anti-Klan march of the Communist Workers Party, but neither warned the marchers nor stopped the violence. Five marchers were killed and none of the attackers were convicted of crimes.

The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right

by Shaun Assael and Peter Keating

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same