the Assembly: “When Aran Shetterly’s new book was released this month, he had no illusions about how it would be received in Greensboro. Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul, re-opens a dark chapter of the city’s history many have struggled to definitively close.
“I fully expect that a lot of people in Greensboro will dismiss me,” Shetterly told The Assembly in an interview this week. “‘Oh, here comes another outsider trying to tell this story he doesn’t understand.’ It’s going to happen.”
Still, nearly 45 years later, Shetterly felt the story needed to be revisited with new eyes.
“This story is vast,” Shetterly said. “What I realize now is, you could write 100 books about this from different perspectives and each one would have something interesting to say in it.””