James Michael Waller was a 37-year-old physician who died on November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was a member of the Communist Workers’ Party and was killed during the Greensboro Massacre, a violent confrontation between CWP members and the Ku Klux Klan together with the American Nazi Party.

The rally had been organized by the CWP to protest the KKK’s activities and to promote workers’ rights, particularly among Black textile industrial workers in the area. The confrontation escalated and resulted in five deaths, including Waller’s; police were present at the scene and did not intervene during the attack. Three trials were later held but none produced convictions for the five deaths.

The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established in 2004 to investigate the incident and its aftermath. Does anyone have information about Waller’s role in the rally or memories of Greensboro in 1979?