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"In this brilliant investigative deep-dive, historian Shetterly revisits the 1979 slaying of five radical...activists by the KKK during an anti-Klan protest in Greensboro, NC. [Shetterly] expands his story into a history of the FBI's extensive COINTELPRO-era use of informants in white supremacist groups...Propulsive and precise, this brings into startling focus the freewheeling world of law enforcement's Cold War-era anticommunist crusade." – Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Aran Shetterly's incredible book offers a harrowing reminder of how our justice system too often turns a blind eye to the perpetrators of racial violence while denying their victims blind justice." — Michelle Coles, former USDOJ civil rights attorney, Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner, and author of Black Was the Ink.

"Shetterly…offers an exhaustive and authoritative rendering of the murderous attack by Klansmen and neo-Nazis that killed five participants at an anti-Klan rally on Nov. 3, 1979…The author masterfully uses this material to construct a detailed, nuanced, and gripping narrative that describes all of the principals’ motivations, struggles, and aims...His work constitutes the most definitive account to date of the Morningside massacre and its subsequent political, social, and legal ramifications. A must for anyone interested in the history of race and social structure in the United States." — Kirkus Reviews

"Shetterly adds a significant contribution to the literature on this topic by adeptly using public files, including video, intensive in-depth interviews with more than 70 people, and FBI and court records from state and federal trials spanning 1979 to 1984...The author methodically disassembles competing and self-serving accounts [and] gives readers a compelling narrative of personal stories about the 1979 Greensboro massacre and its legacy in the context of Greensboro’s history, the Black liberation movement, and political and revolutionary aspirations to end the nation’s racial disparities and exploitation of the working poor." – Thomas J. Davis for Library Journal

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