Sandra Lee Neely Smith, 28, was killed on November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, during what became known as the Greensboro Massacre. An active Marxist organizer and a former Bennett College student government president, she was one of five people who died when members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party attacked participants of an anti-Klan rally organized by the Communist Workers Party at the Morningside Homes public housing project.

Police had been warned that trouble might occur but were notably absent at the time of the attack. Fourteen men with Klan or ANP connections were jailed without bond; twelve faced murder charges and two were charged with conspiracy to commit a riot. All defendants were later acquitted in the trials. A Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission formed in 2004 found that both sides used inflammatory rhetoric but concluded Klan and ANP members intended to inflict injury and that the police department was complicit by allowing the anticipated violence.

Anyone with memories of that rally, knowledge of those events, or who knew Sandra is invited to share what they remember that might help keep the record clear.