NC NC - Willie Ernest Grimes, 20, Greensboro, 22 May 1969 *killed during racial protests*

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The Day the National Guard Raided a Dorm in North Carolina

Greensboro has 6 cold case homicides from 1969-1979 that are still unsolved

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Willie Grimes was a North Carolina A&T State University student who was shot and killed just before 1 a.m. on May 22, 1969, on the school’s campus, between Carver Hall and Ward Hall. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

The Civil Rights Digital Library states that Grimes was killed during a “racial disturbance” that he was not participating in. This was the 1969 Greensboro Uprising, where protests on the then-segregated Dudley High School spilled over when A&T students began protests in solidarity, culminating in clashes between students, police and even the National Guard.

It is unknown whether Grimes was shot by police or someone else.
 

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