- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- An Open Letter to Joe Grady, Gorrell Pierce, and All KKK Members and Sympathizers
- Creator:
- Workers Viewpoint Organization
- Contributor to Resource:
- Johnson, Nelson N.
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : Workers Viewpoint Organization
- Date of Original:
- 1979-10-22
- Subject:
- Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Massacres--North Carolina--Greensboro - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- fliers (printed matter)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This flyer, in the form of an open letter from Nelson Johnson of the Workers Viewpoint Organization (later known as the Communist Workers Party) to leaders of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) challenges KKK members to attend an Anti-Klan Conference to be held November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, NC. Johnson taunts the KKK, calling them "cowards" and "scum" and threatens physical violence. The Death to the Klan march associated with this conference was the site of violence as five members of the Workers Viewpoint/Communist Workers Party were shot and killed in the mayhem between protestors and members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party in what became known as the Greensboro Massacre.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/157
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
- Extent:
- 8.5" x 14"
- Original Collection:
- http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/boyd/
RL.00134 Blanche M. Boyd Papers
CRG - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights: