My friend, Adam Zucker, is the director of Greensboro: Closer to the Truth, a documentary, which is playing at Brooklyn College on November 3rd for one day.

November 3rd happens to the 29th anniversary of the Greensboro massacre, when  members of the Communist Workers Party were holding a Death to the Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. Suddenly a caravan rounded the corner, scattering the protesters. Klansmen and Nazis emerged from the cars, unloaded an arsenal of guns and began firing. Five people were killed.

It turns out that a professor and chairperson at Brooklyn College has a profoundly close connection to the event.

Sally Bermanzohn, professor and chairperson of the Political Science Department at Brooklyn College, was a labor organizer in the Duke Hospital cafeteria when her husband Paul was critically wounded in the Greensboro Massacre. 

At present, she is researching and teaching courses on the international phenomenon of truth and reconciliation commissions.  Bermanzohn is the author of Through Survivors’ Eyes: From the
Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre (2003), for which she received the Brooklyn College Award for Excellence in Creative Achievement. 

She also co-edited Violence and Politics: Globalization’s Paradox (2002),which includes her chapter on Violence, Non-violence and the US Civil Rights Movement.

She will be present at the screening of the film,Greensboro: Closer to the Truth, which reconnect many of the players in this tragedy—widowed and wounded survivors, along with their attackers—and chronicles how their lives have evolved in the aftermath of the killings. All converge at the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission ever held in the United States in Greensboro from 2004- 2006 to investigate the Massacre.

The Where and When

Monday, November 3rd at 6:30 p.m.
Greensboro: Closer to the Truth
Brooklyn College
Woody Tanger Auditorium