DOJ Opens Investigation Into 50-Year-Old Murder of Chapel Hill’s James Cates
Posted Apr 8, 2022
James Lewis Cates Jr. was among those attending an all-night dance in the Carolina Student Union at UNC the night of November 21, 1970. While the event aimed to improve race relations in the Chapel Hill community, it turned tragic after a white supremacist motorcycle gang called the Storm Troopers arrived and got into a fight with Black attendees.
(Chapelboro.com)
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