- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- [Indict the U.S. Government's Upside Down Justice / Free the Greensboro Six]
- Creator:
- Communist Workers Party U.S.A.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Yuen, Marion
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : Communist Workers Party U.S.A.
- Date of Original:
- 1980-05-03
- Subject:
- Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Massacres--North Carolina--Greensboro - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- reports
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This May 3, 1980 press release, issued by the Communist Workers Party (CWP), announces the release on bail of three of the six CWP members indicted on rioting charges stemming from the November 3, 1979, Death to the Klan march (also known as the Greensboro Massacre). The CWP accuses the government of blaming the victims of the shooting, and of a cover-up to hide its role in the murders. The CWP demands that charges be dropped, that thirty-five Ku Klux Klan and Nazi party members be prosecuted for their roles in the murders, and that all law enforcement documents related to the event be made public. The press release also contains an announcement that the CWP would begin the process of a civil rights suit to be filed against the federal, state, and city governments over the shootings.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/167
- 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 11"
- 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:
-
