César Vincente Cauce, a 25-year-old Cuban immigrant and Duke University magna cum laude graduate, was one of five people killed at an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on November 3, 1979. Cauce had been active in the anti-war movement and in organizing textile mill workers when members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party opened fire on a Communist Workers’ Party demonstration. Ten other demonstrators were wounded.

Police had been warned about the potential for trouble but were notably absent during the attack. The killings prompted long-term scrutiny, including an investigation by the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, formed in 2004 to examine the events and the failures of law enforcement and the justice system. A later criminal trial ended with a jury acquitting six Klan defendants, which sparked protests and demands for justice from students and civil rights groups.

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