Panel to review 1979 anti-Klan slayings

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The newly certified members of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission take on a duty that may put them squarely at odds with the city's most powerful leaders.
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The shootings took place as members of the Communist Workers Party conducted a "Death to the Klan" march on Nov. 3, 1979, designed in part to help raise enthusiasm for an effort to organize textile workers at local mills.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis arrived in nine cars. Gunfire was exchanged. Five marchers died.

Two criminal trials yielded only one conviction, the result of a plea.
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