Coming Soon
Red November
Black November
a 16 mm documentary film
of the Greensboro Massacre
Cesar Cauce
November 3, 1979
Greensboro, North Carolina
The lead pickup stopped. A
Klansman, leaning out the window, fired a shot into the air. The
crowd of anti-Klan
demonstrators — men, women,
and children — scattered.
With cool, military precision,
the men removed semiautomatic rifles and shotguns
from their car trunks and fired
steadily for two deadly minutes.
Ambushed, the demonstrators
fought back with fists and
picket sticks.
When the shooting stopped, five members of the
Communist Workers Party lay dead or
dying from gunshot wounds in the
head and heart.
Bill Sampson
"In Germany, they came first for the communists. I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a communist. Then, they came for the Jews. I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then, they came for the trade
unionists. . . Then, they came for the Catholics. . . Then, they came for
me. And, by that time, no one was left to speak up."
Rev. Martin Niemuller
Germany, 1939
Coming Soon
Red November
Black November
a 16 mm documentary film
of the Greensboro Massacre
Cesar Cauce
November 3, 1979
Greensboro, North Carolina
The lead pickup stopped. A
Klansman, leaning out the window, fired a shot into the air. The
crowd of anti-Klan
demonstrators — men, women,
and children — scattered.
With cool, military precision,
the men removed semiautomatic rifles and shotguns
from their car trunks and fired
steadily for two deadly minutes.
Ambushed, the demonstrators
fought back with fists and
picket sticks.
When the shooting stopped, five members of the
Communist Workers Party lay dead or
dying from gunshot wounds in the
head and heart.
Bill Sampson
"In Germany, they came first for the communists. I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a communist. Then, they came for the Jews. I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then, they came for the trade
unionists. . . Then, they came for the Catholics. . . Then, they came for
me. And, by that time, no one was left to speak up."
Rev. Martin Niemuller
Germany, 1939
