1979 Greensboro Shooting
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2015 LCV Cities Tour” in Greensboro, North Carolina, from January 19-22, to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.
Gayle Hicks Fripp talked about the November 3, 1979, mass shooting in Greensboro, North Carolina, that came to be known as the “Greensboro M… read more
Gayle Hicks Fripp talked about the November 3, 1979, mass shooting in Greensboro, North Carolina, that came to be known as the “Greensboro Massacre” and the overall impact it played in the civil rights movement. Violence erupted between members of the Ku Klux Klan and members of the Communist Workers Party during a march that day.
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2015 LCV Cities Tour” in Greensboro, North Carolina, from January 19-22, to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. close
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