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An illustration of a car with 39 lines over it, symbolic of 39 bullets, with text at the bottom: 39 Shots in Greensboro.

39 Shots

Episode #43

2016-05-20 02:51:00

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In 1979, a group of labor organizers protested outside a Ku Klux Klan screening of the 1915 white supremacist film, The Birth of a Nation. Nelson Johnson and Signe Waller-Foxworth remember shouting at armed Klansmen and burning a confederate flag, until eventually police forced the KKK inside and the standoff ended without violence. The...