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Table of Contents:

• Pt. I. Introducing the Truth
• 1. The Truth about Greensboro
• 2. Remembering Victims and Survivors
• 3. Individual Truths
• 4. The Truth Commission Idea
• Pt. II. The Truth-Seeking Process
• 5. Building the Framework
• 6. Seating the Commission
• 7. Starting Up, Establishing Independence
• 8. Research and the Complexity of Truth
• 9. Engaging the Public
• 10. The Report
• 11. Next Steps and Response
• Pt. III. People, Politics, Lessons, and Legacy
• 12. The Project and the Commission
• 13. The Media and Official Greensboro
• 14. Opposition and Critiques
• 15. Interest and Support from Outside
• 16. Lessons from the Process
• 17. An Early Assessment

• 18. Comparing Greensboro
• 19. Greensboro's Legacy.

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Author/Creator:

Magarrell, Lisa

Contributors:

Wesley, Joya

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Learning from Greensboro: truth and reconciliation in the United States [by Magarrell, L.]

Related Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Subjects:

Human rights — North Carolina — Greensboro

Truth commissions — North Carolina — Greensboro

Greensboro (N.C.) — Race relations

Massacres — North Carolina — Greensboro — History — 20th century

Riots — North Carolina — Greensboro — History — 20th century

Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) — North Carolina — Greensboro — History — 20th century

Nazis — North Carolina — Greensboro — History — 20th century

Ku Klux Klan (1915- )

1900-1999

Race relations

Massacres

Riots

Human rights

Nazis

Truth commissions

Germany

North Carolina — Greensboro

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265) and index.

Physical Description:

xv, 278 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

JC599.U52 G74 2008

ISBNs:

9780812241105 (alk. paper)
081224110X (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008012964

OCLC Numbers:

214285867