A darker racial incident in 1979 was called the Greensboro massacre . In this incident the predominantly African American Communist Workers Party ( CWP ) led a march protesting the Ku Klux Klan and other white-supremacist groups through a black neighborhood in southeastern Greensboro . They were attacked and shot at by KKK and American Nazi Party members ; five of the Communist Party marchers were killed and seven wounded in the attack . In 1980 the case attracted renewed national attention when the six shooter defendants were found " not guilty " by an all-white jury . None of the people involved in this shooting , from either side , was a citizen of Guilford County ; they simply chose the county seat of Greensboro as a rallying point . In 1985 families and friends of the victims won a civil case for damages against the city police department and other officials for failure to protect the African Americans ; monies were paid to the Greensboro Justice Center
Greensboro massacre
Greensboro massacre
Guilford County, North Carolina