Through Survivors' Eyes: From the Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre

Image Plates: Gallery II: Party Life

Gallery II. Party Life Left: Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU) pamphlet. Right: Flyer for a brown-lung-screening clinic organized by Paul Bermanzohn and Jim Waller. Sandi Smith speaks against Cone Mills’s firing of union activists at Revolution Mill, 1977. In background, from right: Nelson Johnson, Willena Cannon, her daughter Imani, another child, and Dale Sampson. (Photo © Wayne Michael Lottinville) Sandi Smith at microphone during demonstration in front of Cone Mills corporate headquarters , 1977. (Courtesy of Greensboro Justice Fund) Duke Workers Organizing Committee newsletter; protest (third from right, Paul Bermanzohn; Sally Bermanzohn, lower right.) When Duke Medical Center attempted to fire union activists in 1977, DWOC pickets and protests won the jobs back. Kwame Cannon, eight, with Jim Waller and Sandi Smith, in a picket line for union recognition of Cone Mills textile workers, Greensboro, 1977. (Courtesy of News & Record, Greensboro, N.C.) Leola Lee in Whitakers, North Carolina, summer 1977, protests the legal system’s failure to punish the murderer of her husband. Paul Bermanzohn and our first daughter, named after Leola Lee, at the strike against Cone Mill’s Granite Plant, Haw River, North Carolina, 1978. (Photo by Sally Bermanzohn) Bill Sampson, left, plays guitar at Traders Chevrolet strike, Greensboro, 1978. César Cauce, as organizer of a strike-support rally for Goldkist Poultry workers, Durham, North Carolina, 1978. Bill Sampson, right, on picket line at Traders Chevrolet strike, Greensboro, 1978. Mike Nathan, left, collects medical supplies with Dick David for Zimbabwe African National Union, 1978. The ZANU led the liberation struggle against British control of Rhodesia. North Carolina delegation at African Liberation Day makes the cover of All Africa Standing Up, 1979: Sally Bermanzohn, center; Jim Wrenn with banner, right; Chekesha Powell, Sandi Smith, Bill Sampson, and Paul Bermanzohn among crowd. Sandi Smith, African Liberation Day, 1979. (Courtesy of Greensboro Justice Fund) Jim Waller, African Liberation Day, 1979. (Courtesy of Greensboro Justice Fund) Dale and Bill Sampson. (Courtesy of Dale Sampson) Jim Waller and Bill Sampson. (Courtesy of Dale Sampson) Sandi Smith. César Cauce and Floris Caton marry, June 1979. (Courtesy of Floris Weston) The Wallers: Signe and Jim, with Jim’s stepchildren, Antonia and Alex Goldstein. (Courtesy of Signe Waller) Flyer for November 3, 1979, anti-Klan rally features photographs from anti-Klan rally in China Grove, July 8, 1979. Michael Nathan and Marty Arthur marry, 1978. (Courtesy of Marty Nathan) Michael Nathan and daughter Leah, 1979. (Courtesy of Marty Nathan) ...