Truth and Reconciliation Commission Holds Community Dialogue

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Holds Community Dialogue

November 3, 2005 | Jennifer Curry

Now in the last portion of its public work, the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission will host a commission was the first to be formed in the United States and was modeled after Truth Commissions in South Africa and Peru. Over the past months, the commission has conducted public hearings where some 400 audience members listened to varying accounts and perceived impacts of the events of November 3rd, 1979. That day, five members of the Communist Workers Party were shot dead in the streets of a Greensboro housing project by a caravan of Klansmen and Neo-Nazis. On the 26th anniversary of the shootings, members of the Greensboro community are now being asked to engage in a conversation about what the past means to their lives today. 88.5 WFDD's Jennifer Curry reports.