- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Study cites links between Greensboro police, Klan
- Creator:
- Thornton, Mary
- Publisher:
- Washington, D.C. : Washington Post
- Date of Original:
- 1981-10-03
- Subject:
- Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Massacres--North Carolina--Greensboro - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- clippings (information artifacts)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This October 3, 1981 article by Mary Thornton of The Washington Post reports of the findings of a study by the Institute for Southern Studies that there was an alliance between law enforcement officers and the defendants in the murder case regarding the deaths of five Communist Workers Party members at the Death to the Klan march in Greensboro on November 3, 1979. The report is critical of weaknesses in the prosecution of defendants in the case, and of the Justice Department's approach, and further suggested that the Greensboro Police Department was negligent in allowing the incident to occur when they had been forewarned of the potential for violence. In the article, institute president Julian Bond strongly criticizes the Reagan administration and accuses it of "complicity" in fostering racial conflict.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/1970
- 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://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=356
MSS091 Edward F. Burrows Papers, 1948-1982
CRG - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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