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Thank you. It's the morning of November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Communist Workers Party member Paul Bermanzahn steps out of his car, adjusting his coat to the crisp autumn wind.

Reporters, with cameras ready, huddle outside the Morningside Homes' Public Housing Project.

Paul approaches them confidently, acknowledging a few with a nod and sharing handshakes with a television crew. Ahead of him, a sizable crowd of protesters stand resolute, their signs

proclaiming their opposition to the

Ku Klux Klan. Today is the Communist Workers' Party's death to the Klan march. Committed

to fighting both racism and fascism, the Communist Workers Party, or CWP, has organized this

event to publicly challenge and condemn the KKK, while also drumming up support

for their communist causes. And to that end, the four different camera crews in attendance

are more than Paul could have hoped for. After a few more photographs, Paul leaves the demonstrators

down the street. Crowd is in high spirits, chanting communist slogans alongside their confrontational

death-to-the-clan mantra.

But the mood changes in an instant.

There's a sudden burst of honking as a convoy of vehicles proudly displaying Confederate flags

pulls up beside Paul and his fellow marchers.

The cars are filled with members of the KKK and the American Nazi party.

Hall's stomach twists as one man stops his car next to Paul and rolls down his window.

Paul vaguely recognizes him. The man had been at a recent CWP meeting asking questions about today's

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