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Reverend Nelson Johnson is a co-founder of the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, NC and a longtime advocate for poor people. He led the 1979 anti-Klan march in which neo-Nazis and Klan members, with police collusion, murdered 5 protesters on November 3, 1979.
Oct 14, 2020 · Rev. Nelson Johnson remembers marching in Greensboro in 1979 and the protest’s deadly outcome. That’s why he’s been fighting for decades for an apology.
Nelson Johnson has been active in the movement for social and economic justice since high school in the late 1950's. He served as a student leader Student Government Association at A&T State University, in Greensboro, NC in 1970.
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Rev. Nelson N. Johnson is a survivor of the 1979 massacre, a member of the National Council of Elders, and a co-director of the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, N.C.
Nov 5, 2019 · Rev. Nelson Johnson is a massacre survivor and one of those who helped to coordinate the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is the executive director of the Beloved Community...
Oct 7, 2020 · Nelson Johnson, you know, was taken into custody, kicked in the head by the police. He was bleeding from the arm as he was trying to help people. And the police did this, directly or indirectly.
In 1985, a federal civil trial found Klansmen, Nazis, and members of the Greensboro police department jointly liable for the deaths of the activists. The shooting and the trial outcomes left Greensboro divided and the Johnsons, particularly Nelson, ostracized.
